Arneson Ruby Azalea

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Arneson ruby azalea.

Its reddish buds open to soft golden yellow flowers with apricot orange tips and petal margins. The foliage is bronze toned and is a slower grower making a smaller sized deciduous azalea in the landscape. Prolific spring bloomer with abundant red buds streaked with yellow then opening to a gorgeous flower show displaying blooms each with a yellow throat shading to reddish orange at the margins. Habit is upright and spreading to 3ft high x 4ft wide.

It is fragrant and the leaves are disease resistant. Supremely large 5 dark ruby red wavy edged flowers appear mid spring. Starting in the 1960 s ivan and robertha arneson of canby oregon started hybridizing deciduous azaleas. Azalea arneson ruby deciduous azalea large ruby red blooms with wavy edges lay on bright green foliage that turns an attractive shade of red in the fall.

Arneson gem is a true jewel. Azalea arneson gem wazalarg. Home none arneson gem exbury azalea. Rich ruby red flowers decorate this outstanding new deciduous azalea in mid spring.

Filtered to full sun growing conditions. Red buds open to large soft yellow orange flowers shading to strong reddish orange at the margins. Ivan robertha arneson. Arneson nursery and the azalea fields ivan and robertha next to one of their red hybrids circa 1980 s arneson hybrids tadeusz dauksza orland park il.

Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. Blooms mid spring 4 5 ft tall x 3 ft spread deciduous hardy to 20 f 28 9 c attracts bees butterflies and hummingbirds. Arneson ruby azalea azalea x arneson ruby sku 40086. Purple triumph azalea evergreen.

The eye catching flowers cover the shrub as the foliage begins to appear. Arneson gem exbury azalea. 3 foot clump forming usda zone. Certainly one of the top candidates for the reddest azalea has to be arneson s ruby also listed under arneson ruby.

It was hybridized by ivan and robertha arneson long time growers and hybridizers of deciduous azaleas. Arneson ruby in the dauksza garden good flower that was partly double they saved it and started to hybridize for a larger flowered double corolla 3 to 4 in. Blooms mid april into may and it is fragrant. Vigorous grower with a tight compact habit.

The foliage fall color is red orange. Azaleas make a great accent plant to any landscape setting. Partial to full sun. It is a deeply saturated true ruby red enhanced by red filaments on its stamens and a mint green stigma on its red pistil.

Evenly moist well drained soils.