Evergreen Azalea Hatsu-giri
- Code: AHATS
- Flower Colour: Purple
- Flowering Month: May
- Height After 10 Years: 50-75cm
- Interesting Foliage: No
- Scent: Not Scented
- Hardiness: To -10 °C
Abundant small pretty funnel-shaped bright purplish-crimson flowers 25mm across flowering in late April to early May. This is a dense low evergreen plant with small, narrow, dark green leaves. It grows wider than tall. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
(Known as 'Normale' in Japan in the md 19th century)
- Ideal for small gardens and mixed borders.
- Easy to grow.
- Group:Evergreen Azalea (Kurume hybrid).
- Parentage: unknown.
- Hybridization date: pre 1950.
- Bred by: unknown. Origin: Japanese.
- Habit: Compact.
- Ideal position: Needs some shelter.
- Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
- RHS Hardiness Rating: H3-4.
- How we usually propagate this plant: Cutting.
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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