Azalea, Karens

An extraordinary and stunning variety presenting multiple clusters of bright lavender-pink blooms on a hardy and dense compact shrub. A beautiful presentation as a garden focal point, it has an open multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage. Unusually flower bud hardy, it will survive to -25 °F. Very tolerant of higher pH soils as well. Lower leaves drop off in Jan, with leaves right under flower buds persisting.