Evergreen Azalea Elsie Lee AGM
- Code: AELSIE
- Flower Colour: Mauve-Blue
- Flowering Month: May
- Height After 10 Years: 50-75cm
- Interesting Foliage: No
- Scent: Not Scented
- Hardiness: To -20 °C
Stunning double lilac-lavender flowers up to 60mm which last well, flowering in late May. A recent introduction and proving very popular, as this is a different colour to most other azaleas. A neat grower with a fairly upright habit, sometimes semi deciduous foliage. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
- Ideal for containers and small gardens, makes a real statement!
- Easy to grow.
- Group:Evergreen Azalea (Shammarello hybrid).
- Parentage: 'Desiree' X ' Rosebud' (Gable)
- Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1960).
- Bred by: A.M. Shammarello. Origin: American.
- Habit: Upright.
- Ideal position: Most garden situations.
- Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
- RHS Hardiness Rating: H4.
- How we usually propagate this plant: Cutting.
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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