Foundation plantings add color, texture, and beauty to your landscape while also providing camouflage for your home’s ...

Evergreen azaleas are excellent foundation plants, providing yearround, attractive green foliage and a nice show of color in spring. Exbury hybrids, by contrast, are focal points and showstoppers.

Mulch well and expect to water your shrubs twice a week in summer. Azaleas are often touted as a great foundation plant. And they are—unless your foundation is made of concrete. Concrete can ...

The azalea falls into two broad categories: as the bright, small- to medium-sized evergreen shrub that is everybody’s favorite foundation plant; and as the more graceful and open deciduous shrub ...

azaleas provide visual interest in the garden year-round. They can reach 6 feet to 8 feet tall and 4 feet to 6 feet wide, making them a great choice for foundation plantings that give structure to ...

The fact that azaleas and rhododendrons are such top-selling plants accounts for part of that dubious distinction. They’re our go-to foundation shrubs because they’re beautiful in bloom ...

Azaleas are bred to suit a range of climates and growing zones. They can be very long-lived and make excellent foundation shrubs or accents in woodland gardens. The five-petaled, fluted flowers ...

Whether you’re into classic, well-manicured American suburban landscape design, or favor a more natural look featuring native shrubs, you probably have some type of foundation plant around the ...

such as rhododendrons and azaleas, and perhaps a tall grass like maiden grass (Miscanthus sinensis). To provide instant appeal at a new house, the foundation plants are placed to look good now ...

Regretfully many gardeners were not successful with their plantings and the enthusiasm for azaleas has dwindled. Local soils are exceptionally sandy and not adjusted to the acidity preferred by ...

I use a foundation hedge of pink azaleas on the east side of the house. There is usually a last frost or freeze when they are in full bloom, which ruins their blooms, even though the plants are hardy.