Arneson Ruby Azalea
Partial to full sun.
Arneson ruby azalea. 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. It would be difficult to find a more saturated red then the blooms on this deciduous azalea. Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. Purple triumph azalea evergreen.
Habit is upright and spreading to 3ft high x 4ft wide. Filtered to full sun growing conditions. The foliage is bronze toned and being a slower. Red buds open to large soft yellow orange flowers shading to strong reddish orange at the margins.
It was hybridized by ivan and robertha arneson long time growers and hybridizers of deciduous azaleas. 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 gem exbury azalea. Home none arneson gem exbury azalea.
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. Azalea arneson ruby growth habit. 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. The eye catching flowers cover the shrub as the foliage begins to appear.
Arneson gem is a true jewel. It is fragrant and the leaves are disease resistant. The foliage fall color is red orange. 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. Ivan robertha arneson. Azaleas make a great accent plant to any landscape setting. 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. 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. 3 foot clump forming usda zone. Azalea arneson gem wazalarg.
Rich ruby red flowers decorate this outstanding new deciduous azalea in mid spring. Silver sword sport of girards rose azalea evergreen. Certainly one of the top candidates for the reddest azalea has to be arneson s ruby also listed under arneson ruby. Starting in the 1960 s ivan and robertha arneson of canby oregon started hybridizing deciduous azaleas.
Supremely large 5 dark ruby red wavy edged flowers appear mid spring.