Shade Colour Azaleas
We all love spring colour and when it comes to spring and flowering shrubs it is hard to beat the magnificent show produced by azaleas. In recent years many people have put azaleas into the too-hard basket because they are so often spoilt by ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Best Azaleas
Azaleas are among the most popular and best flowering shrubs in the world. They grow well in most areas of Australia, from Brisbane to Perth and south and are a feature of many spring gardens. There are thousands of varieties of azaleas most of ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Burke's Backyard Best Azaleas
There are many different types of azaleas and most people have had one that looked beautiful but eventually died, usually because it was not a hardy variety. Some azaleas are very difficult to grow and others are easy so it is very important to ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Epping Road Azaleas
Don looked at a fabulous floral display along the side of Epping Road, Lane Cove in Sydney. The display is made up of four hardy varieties of azalea: 'Alba Magna' or 'Alba Magnifica' (large white flowers), 'Alphonse Anderson' (light orchid-pink ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Colourful Azaleas
In spring, many gardens are filled with azaleas in colours such as pink, white, mauve or red. However, a wider range of colours can be found in some cool climate gardens. Peter Valder explores several different colours. The 'Mollis' azalea was ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Azaleas and Camellias
If you want to inject a bit of colour into your shaded garden there are two families that are worth looking at, azaleas and camellias. Camellias come from Southeast Asia and apart from being famous for their production of tea they are a world ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Seasonal Colour
There is always something in colour at Roma Street Parkland, and it is such a marvellous place to gather ideas on what is achievable in Queensland. The sculptured Azaleas (Rhododendron indica hybrid cultivar), are a real showstopper. Keeping them ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Azalea - Rhododendron
Evergreen or semi-deciduous flowering shrubs of the Rhododendron family. There are several species that vary in size from 30cm dwarfs to large 2-3m plants. Hundereds of hybrids and named varieties are available that produce flowers at different ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Azalea Sports
Burke's Backyard receives letters about confusing flowering plants that have two different coloured flowers on the one bush. For example an azalea may have magenta purple flowers with one branch of whitish flowers with a magenta purple edge. The ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Anchee Min
Red Azalea is Anchee Min's celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao's China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, ... [... more]
Random House |
Azalea Lace Bug
There is nothing quite like the colour of an Azalea bush in full bloom. But have you ever noticed that when the show is over, the foliage can take on an unhealthy motley look? That is exactly what has been happening in Tanya's garden in Buderim ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Azalea Hedge Renovation
Don reworked an azalea hedge that had grown so tall it was blocking the light and obscuring the view from the house. It is very difficult to keep a hedge at exactly the same height. Even when hedges are trimmed regularly, they gradually grow ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
