Anonymous
Post 03/03/2022 12:16     Subject: Would you plant azaleas?
I love them! I moved into a much colder zone and can’t grow them; it’s one of the things I miss about the area.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2022 20:44     Subject: Would you plant azaleas?
Anonymous wrote:I would skip them. The bright pink can be tacky, people prune them into odd shapes sometimes and they bloom for such a short period of time.



I know what you mean, but it also makes me sad a color found in nature on a flower is considered tacky
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2022 23:35     Subject: Would you plant azaleas?
weigela is semi evergreen
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2022 23:33     Subject: Would you plant azaleas?
Anonymous wrote:If not azalea, what’s a low maintenance flowering shrub that is evergreen?


Abelia, several variety of viburnum, some rhododendon, camelia, mahonia, japanese pieris, kalmia, leucothoe

Anonymous
Post 03/01/2022 23:28     Subject: Would you plant azaleas?
Anonymous wrote:If not azalea, what’s a low maintenance flowering shrub that is evergreen?


You have just articulated the reason people around here plant non-native azaleas.