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How to plant and care for Azalea (Japanese Evergreen)
Rhododendron 'Hino-crimson'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
A compact evergreen azalea smothered in brilliant crimson flowers in May. Perfect in a pot of ericaceous compost on a shady patio.
When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Azalea (Japanese Evergreen): what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water with rainwater
- Soil
- Acidic soil or ericaceous compost
- Spacing
- 60 cm
- Height
- 60 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- Ericaceous feed after flowering
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 6–9
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 60 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- MayIn Flower
Covered in flowers — take a photo.
- MayDeadhead
Pinch off faded flowers carefully.
- JuneEricaceous Feed
Feed with an ericaceous fertiliser and top up the bark mulch.
- AugustKeep Moist
Water pots with rainwater in dry weather — buds for next spring are forming now.
