Autumn Sweetheart Encore® Azalea

The Autumn Sweetheart™ Encore® Azalea steals the heart of everyone who sees its beautiful pastel pink blooms, fading from a deeper center into near-white margins on the petals. Enhanced by deeper pink brush strokes in the throat, these blooms cover the plant in April, of course, but then return for a brilliant encore from mid-July to the first frost, keeping color in your garden for months, not days. Grow this 4 to 5-foot shrub as part of the foundation planting around your home, or in the light shade of a wooded area. Use it to create an informal hedge in a narrow space, as it grows taller than it is wide. Wherever you grow it, it will bring vivacious coloring to your garden, on a vigorous and fast-growing shrub.

• Magnificent pastel pink bloom fade to white at the margins
• Reblooms all summer and fall, after a spring blooming
• Sturdy, upright plant is perfect for informal hedges
• Grows equally well in sun or shade
• Great choice for pots and planters as well

The Autumn Sweetheart™ Encore® Azalea grows equally well in sun or light shade. More sun in cooler zones is recommended, with some afternoon shade in hotter states. It should be grown in moist, well-drained and rich soil that is acidic, with a pH between 5.0 and 6.5. If your neighbors are growing azaleas, camellias and blue hydrangeas in their gardens, so can you, and you will wow them with the endless flowering of this beautiful plant. If you don’t have suitable soil, then grow it in a pot, using soil for acid-loving plants, and azalea food.