{"id":7510,"date":"2016-03-13T01:28:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2016-05-12T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:06:56","slug":"blazing-deciduous-azaleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/blazing-deciduous-azaleas\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazing Deciduous Azaleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn is the best time to plant Azaleas so you get a blaze of colour next spring. If you want to see the colour before you buy than aim for a pot grown plant in spring.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Azalea &amp; Aquilegia \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4638036491\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4638036491_b3d9c478e7.jpg\" alt=\"Azalea &amp; Aquilegia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deciduous Azaleas have trumpet shaped flowers in a range of bright often fiery colours. The flowers appear before or at the same time as the leaves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Types of Deciduous Azalea<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ghent hybrids are generally fragrant plants growing 4-6&#8242; tall.<\/li>\n<li>Knapp Hill hybrids, Exbury and Mollis Azaleas do not have much scent but are available in vivid colours.<\/li>\n<li>Occidentale hybrids have fragrant pastle coloured flowers in May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Occidentale Azalea\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4638643688\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3399\/4638643688_d8f87b9920.jpg\" alt=\"Azalea\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read about growing Azaleas on <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/azalea-growing-tips\/\">Gardeners tips<\/a><br \/>\nSome Occidentale or Western Azaleas are generally white tinged with pink and flower a bit later June-July.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Azalea luteum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4638010865\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/4638010865_2dfae436b6.jpg\" alt=\"Azalea\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Azalea luteum<\/strong> &#8216;The Common Yellow Azalea&#8217; has fragrant yellow flowers in May and leaves that turn orange or crimson in autumn.<\/li>\n<li>This Azalea pontica has an AGM and grows slowly into a medium sized shrub of 6-9 feet high.<\/li>\n<li>This plant is one of the easiest to grow, only requiring acid soil.<\/li>\n<li>Also sold as Rhododendron luteum they can be grown from seed.<\/li>\n<li>Originally the honey made from the scented plants was thought to have narcotic effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Knapp Hill Azalea \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4638646416\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4071\/4638646416_c8a79c0f1a.jpg\" alt=\" Azalea\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is certainly the most gay and brilliant flowering shrub&#8230;&#8217; wrote Wm Bartram about the Azalea in 1791. However Azaleas first appeared in literature around 400 B.C. in Babylon written by Cyrus the creator of the Quincunx. ( A tree planting using 5 trees in a X pattern).<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13397\">Growing Deciduous Azaleas in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn is the best time to plant Azaleas so you get a blaze of colour next spring. If you want to see the colour before you buy than aim for a pot grown plant in spring. Deciduous Azaleas have trumpet shaped flowers in a range of bright often fiery colours. The flowers appear before or at the same time as the leaves. Types of Deciduous Azalea The Ghent hybrids are generally fragrant plants growing 4-6&#8242; tall. Knapp Hill hybrids, Exbury&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/blazing-deciduous-azaleas\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-rhododendron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}