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Azaleas are Augusta National Golf Course’s most famous plantings. When the beautiful shrubs were originally planned for the course, around 1932, azalea facts looked like this: a one-time profusion of spring blooms for two to three glorious weeks in subtropical areas.
The quest for the perfect azalea bush has been the focus of experts since the 1940s. Thoroughly studied, exhaustively tested, and by accelerating natural processes, azaleas today are irresistibly easy to grow, the bushes can live for decades, and the flowers are big with true, pure colors. Proven Winners PERFECTO MUNDO® azalea bushes are grown as perennials further north than ever before (to Zone 6b), have a smaller, mounded habit perfect for containers, even more disease resistance, and, after spring’s garden show of azalea blooms, these rebloom from summer into fall with nuggets or waves of color depending on whether you plant them singly or in mass.
Shop for Reblooming Azaleas… have you heard … azaleas are finicky? Not anymore.
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And, if you have caught sight of Augusta National’s azalea bushes and their mass eruption of flowers during the Master’s Golf Tournament, you’ll understand the reason for the decades of dedicated research and ongoing development that now bring repeat blooming azaleas to more American gardeners than ever before. Thank you, Proven Winners.
Shop for Reblooming AzaleasUSDA Hardiness Zones: 6b – 9 (-5 F / -20.5 C)
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Azalea is identified as a sub species of Rhododendron.
Shop for Reblooming AzaleasProven Winners meticulously develops vibrant flowering annuals, perennials, and shrubs that deliver the most beautiful garden performance. What began as a garden plant research brand on the quest for the best performing plants, is now the #1 plant brand. The Proven Winners PERFECTO MUNDO® azalea, bred by Dr. Thomas Ranney Professor of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University Extension, is yet another dynamic, garden-changing development for Proven Winners. Due to its superior characteristics, PERFECTO MUNDO® azalea will begin to replace the Bloom-A-Thon™ series beginning in Spring 2022.
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