Alpine azalea (Azalea dianthiflora)

Beautiful color

Isn’t it? I don’t remember ever seeing it until last year. The dark pink ones aggressively took over and covered it.

We had a rusty orange azalea at our first house. We trimmed and fed it and it turned into a beautiful deep coral similar to yours.

Very pretty! Interesting color!

Strikingly beautiful

That deepest coral is perhaps my favorite azalea color, Brad.

Chris, what did you feed it to change the color? Rusty Orange sounds like a popular ‘70s color for cars and shag rugs. I would have a fit to see that color on an azalea.

Thanks, y’all for your comments regarding this particular color. It is quite possible that the flowers changed color over the years. They were swallowed by hot pink for years, after all. And next door... read more