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I wish the pics showed the vibrance of the pink color, but the azaleas I inherited are putting on a show!

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I remember this when I lived in Tallahassee--too bad it comes and goes so quickly! One day you have plain jane bushes and the next day, all sorts of vibrant colors! Then the next day, it's back to drab.

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Yep, unless you have the encore azaleas.

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You guys down south should really keep the Azaleas for Zone 8, they last here for almost two months.

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I was just about to say the Azalea bloom here goes for about a month. It is preceded by a month of Camellia bloom and followed by a month or two of roses, and on and on. If you don't have 12 months of color in Zone 9a then you just aren't trying, or you just grow palms, lol.

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I was just about to say the Azalea bloom here goes for about a month. It is preceded by a month of Camellia bloom and followed by a month or two of roses, and on and on. If you don't have 12 months of color in Zone 9a then you just aren't trying, or you just grow palms, lol.

Keith Camelia are almost done blooming here and the early roses need a few more weeks…mid April for first rose blooms. And, like you said, it just keeps snow balling after that. Canna’s are already starting to wake up this is a few weeks early for here.

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Great pictures Palm Crazy / Tropicdoc..

Those Azaleas that manage to survive this far south have pretty much finished their flowering. Seems they flowered a little earlier this year .

When lived north of the Skyway, there was an older, Oak shaded neighborhood on the west side of Clearwater that had some pretty spectacular Azaleas and a few Camellias in roughly half of the yards. Hadn't seen Azaleas like "Southern Charm" or "Lavender Formosa" in nearly tree-sized dimensions before, even back in CA. Wasn't something id imagine growing alongside Coconuts either, lol.

-Nathan



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Don't forget the native azaleas. They can be pretty spectacular. This particular one isn't, I just happened to see it in the woods the other day.

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Woodville, FL

zone 8b

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Seems we are a little cool snap. Does that mean the azalea flowers will hold longer on the bush?

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Don't forget the native azaleas. They can be pretty spectacular. This particular one isn't, I just happened to see it in the woods the other day.

I love Native Azaleas, we have 5 in the garden and I will expand that in years to come. For me they open up just as the imported Azaleas wind down.

My Spirea always bloom in concert with the Azaleas. The Tung Oil trees are just now coming into full bloom but with that late freeze they are not as magnificent as some years. The Citrus are just starting to fire off. Avocado is loaded with buds that will open just around the corner. The next big color will be the Gladiolus byzantinus. I have hundreds of them naturalized on the property. Oh, and the Louisiana Iris will bloom soon. All of my antique roses are reaching full bloom now, but my more modern roses that I prune back are still 2-4 weeks of peak bloom. The Blueberries and ending the bloom and progressing to the fruit stage. Snowball tree is making its first bloom. Let's see, what else? The tomatoes are starting to bloom, and we can't forget that magnificent 12 month progression of Louisiana weeds, lol.

I love flowers in our garden.

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I’ve always wanted to grow Gladiolus byzantinus, thats cool you have them everywhere.

Saw some walking irises at the nursery this weekend. Some of the native irises can look pretty tropical looking.

The tropical looking azalea bloom here in April-May, if I see any of the multi colored ones I’ll post them here.

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Tung oil trees are nice, I've been thinking about digging up a naturalized seedling from the woods. Palm Crazy, what lilies are native there? I just got a few heirloom Hymenocallis bulbs, which I have wanted for some time.

About the same time as azaleas we also have dogwoods and fringetrees. It's a pretty time of year.

Woodville, FL

zone 8b

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Tung oil trees are nice, I've been thinking about digging up a naturalized seedling from the woods. Palm Crazy, what lilies are native there? I just got a few heirloom Hymenocallis bulbs, which I have wanted for some time.

About the same time as azaleas we also have dogwoods and fringetrees. It's a pretty time of year.

Redbeard, I’m not really sure, but some of these from this nursery are native to the pnw…. does mail order…http://www.keepingitgreennursery.com/collections/prennials-g-l?page=3

She sells lots of interesting bulbs. Check them out. The tiger or leopard lilies are native here.

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Tung oil trees are nice, I've been thinking about digging up a naturalized seedling from the woods. Palm Crazy, what lilies are native there? I just got a few heirloom Hymenocallis bulbs, which I have wanted for some time.

About the same time as azaleas we also have dogwoods and fringetrees. It's a pretty time of year.

Tung Oil are super easy to grow from seed. There five seeds in the one pod I picked up and I got 100% germination. If you remind me in the fall I'd be happy to send you some.

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In addition to the showy mass flowering Azaleas from the far east, spring in the south also means native Azaleas. I have been adding more of these to the garden in the last few years.

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Didn't know about those ... Cool

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As promised here are some of the spring blooming Azaleas with some pretty tropical looking flowers.

Pink.

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Orange, love this one. These are early spring varieties, they over lap the winter blooming ones and so on.

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If I see anymore with different colours I will post again.

Roger.

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Bright red one.

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Rhodies been blooming also and they peak in May.

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This garden also has lots of colourful flowers too.

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I’ll try and find some Exbury azaleas in the next two months.

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