Milan Havlis - gardening

Arneson Gem is a true jewel. Its reddish buds open to soft golden-yellow flowers with apricot orange tips and petal margins. It is fragrant and the leaves are disease resistant. Prolific bloomer. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist ...

Cannon´s Double is proud of its multi-layered tepals and a great scale of colour within one flower: carmine buds open to salmon pink, orange and creamy beige. What a show! Dark green leaves have bronzy shades. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with co ...

Chetco brightens up your garden even in cloudy weather. The flowers are bright yellow, with golden flare and flower buds. Green leaves gain bronze shades during summer and turn bright burgundy red in autumn. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with cons ...

Gibraltar is undoubtedly the bestseller among orange varieties as this orange is deep and glowing. It has frilled margins and blooms reliably every year. Bred by Rotschild in 1947, GB. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. Duri ...

Glowing Embers is my top favourite. It is true to its name: as if you were watching the very centre of fire, the petals are vivid orange with golden flashes. Very fragrant. Mid green leaves have bronze highlight from spring already. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving in ...

Golden Eagle blooms from mid May till early June with vivid, deep orange flowers with a golden throat. Very striking. It has dense foliage turning bronzy red in autumn. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. During temporary sum ...

Goldtopas is an excellent variety of deciduous azalea with golden yellow flowers. Their colour is like glowing afternoon sun. Flower heads are up to 13 cm large, while individual flowers are 7-9 cm wide. It grows quite compact, forming a shrub 1.1m tall and 1.4m wide when 15 yea ...

“Harvest Moon” is less common, but very beautiful and demanded variety with neon yellow flowers with golden flare. Leaves vary from bright to dark green and bronzy during throughout the season. It forms a wide shrub – about 1.5m. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving ins ...

Homebush forms rounded, almost spherical trusses of bright pink to salmon pink, semi-double flowers in late spring. The truss shape resembles flowering snowball viburnum. The tepals are distinctly pointed. Bred by Waterer in 1925, GB. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving ...

“Jolie Madame” has rather distinct tips of tepals making a star-shape look. Flowers are candy pink with orange-apricot flare and a lovely fragrance. This variety grows about 2m tall and wide. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with always moist soil. Durin ...

Klondyke is a deciduous azalea with charming, deep golden-orange flowers. Their colour is dark and warm and looks fascinating combined with purple-blue or dark violet. Inflorescence are composed of 7-9 flowers, each is about 7 cm wide. It grows nearly as tall as wide, expect som ...

“Mandarin Lights” comes from the Northern Lights line. This one has bright orange flowers with shades of red and yellow and frilled edges. Excellent hardiness to -35°C. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with always moist soil. During temporary summer dry ...

Mary Poppins has magical bi-coloured, funnel shaped flowers of yellow centres and deep coral orange towards the frilled margins. Large trusses are rounded and can bear up to 30 flowers. Leaves turn lovely purple colour in autumn. Disease resistant. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous ...

Mount St.Helens is a naughty variety, changing its colour by mood. From deep coral orange-red to rich or pale salmon with an apricot blotch on the upper petal. Autumns leaves are bright purple. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist s ...

Northern Hi-Lights is a slow-grower with creamy white flowers that grade to pale or bright yellow on top petals. Buds are light pink. Leaves are dark green and turn brilliant carmine and burgundy red in autumn. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with c ...

If you are looking for red blooms “Red Sunset” is a perfect pick. Its shade has a slight orange tint, flower tepals are gently frilled. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with always moist soil. During temporary summer dry spells in certain areas their le ...

“Satan” variety definitely sticks to its name. Large trusses of rich red funnel shaped flowers appear in mid May. This shrub is slightly larger than others, growing 2m tall and wide. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with always moist soil. During tempor ...

Amoena is a Japanese azalea with small to mid-sized, bright, deep fuchsia pink flowers, hose in hose, that totall cover the plant when in full bloom. They come out in mid May and continue until early June. Thanks to their bright colour it will light up the daker corners of your ...

Anouk is an extraordinary variety of dwarf habit but with large flowers. It grows slowly into a ground-covering shriu with less conspicuous horizontal layers. The flowers are pink and rather wide, when in full bloom they look as if someone dropped a basket of freshly cut rhododendron f ...

Blaauw’s Pink has attractive, salmon pink small flowers with slightly darker throat. It has irregular growth and belongs to mid-sized azalea. Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only about 2-3 cm long. In semi-shade and shade they remain on the shrub throughout winter, if pla ...

Eisprinzessin® is a mound-forming Japanese azalea with pure white, double flowers. They are extra large for an azalea, almost 6 cm across. They come out in abundance from end May until mid June. When the shrub is in full bloom the plant looks like a mound of fresh snow with ...

Another red flowering Japanese azalea from Hans Hachmann was bred in 1987 and was named Fridoline. It has medium-sized flowers: 4-4,5 cm wide of bright red colour. It blooms in late spring, from end May until mid June. Slow grower, mound-forming. Leaves are mid to dark green ...

Hot Shot Variegated is a Japanese azalea with small, elliptic, dark green leaves with white margins. They are evergreen in zone 7 and semi-evergreen in zone 6 when temperature drops below -18°C. The plant will always make new leaves in spring again even it loses foliage complete ...

Johanna is extremely popular for its deep red flowers anddark leaves. It flowers so abundantly that leaves almost disappear under the cloud of flowers. It is a slow grower forming a nice, mounding, compact shrub. Small, ovate to rounded leaves are mid green as they emerge, turning t ...

Kermesina Rose is a must have for everyone who likes varigated or multi-cloloured flowers. These are pink with a clear white margin. It is a slow grower forming an irregular, mounding, compact shrub. It may happen to this variety that a certain amount of flowers comes out without white ...

Königstein is an old fortress near Frankfurt, Germany, as well as a name for this Japanese azalea. Surprisingly it was bred nearly 500 km away at Pillnitzer castle gardens, near Dresden. It is a slow and dense growing plant with profusion of large, 3-4 cm across, widely open, pu ...

Marinja® is another jewel among Japanese azaleas with double flowers. Its flowers are pure pink, 4-5.5 cm wide and each flower bears 17-21 flower petals. They come out from end May until mid June. It was bred by Hans Hachmann in 2004. It grows slowly, 10-year old plant is ab ...

Maruschka® is a lovely name for a lovely azalea. Who knows which Maruschka made the breeder Hans Hachmann give this gorgeous plant an East-European name in 1988. This Japanese azalea is a low growing plant with profusion of mid-sized bright red flowers in May. Wen in full bl ...

Melina is a stunning variety of Japanese azalea. Its double or even triple flowers are bright pink and appear in rounded inflorescens late in the spring – end May/early June. It grows slowly and compact, spreading. Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only about 2-3 c ...

Palestrina is a Japanese azalea with snow white, medium-sized flowers with tiny green dots in the throat. It has irregular growth and belongs to mid-sized azaleas. Flowering begins in early May and continues for about one month. Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only about ...

If you like Japanese azaleas try this one. Peppina® is a lovely variety with extremely large flowers, up to 5.5 cm wide which is a size of a small rhododendron flower. Another feature similar to rhododendrons is the conspicuous blotch, which is deep purple in a light purple- ...

Purple Splendor is an old favourite with medium-sized, bright purple flowers with burgundy blotching and wavy margins of the petals. It grows moderately fast into an irregular, dense shrub. Small leaves are mid green, elongated with a tip and are quite reliable as far as winter pers ...

Rosinetta® is another unique Japanese azalea bred by Hans Hachmann. It has pure pink, double or tripple flowers that are 4-6 cm wide and come out late in May, and continue blooming until mid June. It grows slowly, 10-year old plant is about 60 cm high and 80 cm wide. Lea ...

Schneeperle® is a gorgeous, pure white Japanese azalea from Hans Hachmann. Its double flowers are snow white and abundant. Individual flowers are abou 4-5 cm wide and come out from mid May until early June. It grows slowly, 10-year old plant is about 35 cm high and 55 cm wid ...

Sometimes variety names do tell what the plant looks like. Silver Sword is a Japanese azalea with narrow, elliptic leaves that are green in the cetre and almost white at the margins and with a little bit of imagination they may look like tiny swords. Pink flowers are mid-sized a ...

Silvester is a Kurume hybrid of Japanese azalea. It has small, pale purple-pink fowers. These hybrids are renowned for their hardines and soil adaptibility. It flowers early, from end April until mid May. Slow grower, mound-forming. Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only ...

Snow is a pure white variety with large, scented flowers. It grows moderately fast into an irregular-shaped shrub. Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only about 2-3 cm long. In semi-shade and shade they remain on the shrub throughout winter, if placed in full sun it might lose a g ...

Stewartstonian is becoming the most sought-after evergreen azalea with red flowers. The red is soft, almost orangey red, as far as we can talk about orange in Japanese azaleas. It grows slowly and forms a fairly compact shrub that does not need to be pruned. Slightly glossy leaves ...

This is original, non-hybridized species of Turkey origin. Its heavily scented flowers are lemon to bright yellow with narrower tepals. They open fully into a shape of a star. Grows medium fast to 3m tall and wide. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly ...

Aladdin Scout is a great Kurume azalea with profusion of soft red, large flowers. It blooms from end May until early June. Evergreen leaves are medium sized, deep green, and narrowly ovate. It grows medium fast in all direction forming a rounded bush. Azaleas can be clipped t ...

Conversation Piece is definitely something to talk about. This azalea has extremely large flowers of two colours: light pink and white. The varigation differs from plant to plant, some blooms may be just pink, others mottled white or be entirely white with pink stripes and so on ...

Dorothy Hayden has large, pure white, funnel-shape flowers that open from end May until late June. They pop up continuously unlike early Japanese azaleas that cover the whole plant with a mass of flowers. It grows slowly making a compact, low shrub does not need to be pruned. Everg ...

Nuccio’s Wild Cherry is one of those great Satsuki azaleas with large flowers. They are cherry red with a light burgundy red blotch. It was bread by Nuccio Nursery of Southern California wich is a leading nursery for Satsuki azaleas and camellias. The flowers appear from e ...

Perla del Verbano is a sensational new variety of evergreen hybrid azalea that originated in Northern Italy. It bears profusion of bright pink, double = hose in hose flowers from end June until late July. They appear continuously so you can enjoy them for as long as a month unde ...

Rose Greeley is a hybrid with white flowers with light green blotching. It grows moderately to slowly and forms a fairly compact shrub that does not need to be pruned. Slightly glossy leaves are ovate, small, and dark green. Its winter leave persistence is excellent not only in sem ...

Royal Pink is a great name for a great plant. This Japanese azalea offers very large, double flowers of clear pink colour. They are 8-9 cm across and come out from mid May until early June. In late May the shrub is literally flooded by the profusion of flowers that almost comple ...

Azaleodendron is a rare hybrid between deciduous azaleas and evergreen rhododendrons. This unusual plant has very attractive flowers of mauve colour and narrow petals, and narrow, bright green, semi-deciduous leaves. Flowers are sweetly fragrant and come out in late spring or early summer whi ...