Girard's Pleasant White Azalea
Rhododendron 'Girard's Pleasant White'
Girard Hybrids
$45.00 – $89.00
This elegant azalea shrub is bathed in clusters of incredible snowy white blooms that is an excellent choice to mass in groupings, or as an elegant focal point of the garden; must have rich acidic soil
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Girard's Pleasant White Azalea is an open multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.
Ornamental Qualities
Girard's Pleasant White Azalea is bathed in stunning clusters of lightly-scented white trumpet-shaped flowers with light green spots at the ends of the branches in late spring before the leaves. It has green deciduous foliage. The narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.
Planting and Growing
Girard's Pleasant White Azalea will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 5 feet. It tends to be a little leggy | with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground. It grows at a slow rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.
This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. You may want to keep it away from hot | dry locations that receive direct afternoon sun or which get reflected sunlight | such as against the south side of a white wall. It requires an evenly moist well-drained soil for optimal growth | but will die in standing water. It is very fussy about its soil conditions and must have rich | acidic soils to ensure success | and is subject to chlorosis (yellowing) of the foliage in alkaline soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution | and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Keep moisture level moist
Mature Size 4'Hx5'W
Flowers are white with soft fragrance
Flowers in late spring
Zone 5a
Likes well drained soil