Azaleas that will bloom two to three times a year during the warm season; spring, summer and fall. I was curious so I did a search it seems that there is a hybrid that will bloom three times a year ....

Imagine if you could capture the fleeting spring production of one of the South's most talented troupers--the azalea--and then stage a command performance again amid the gilded backdrop of late summer and early fall. Gardeners already familiar with Encore azaleas know this scenario is possible. This relatively new group of azaleas was developed in the 1980s by crossing traditional spring-blooming plants with a rare Taiwanese summer-blooming azalea, Rhododendron oldhamii. The offspring boast blooms in springtime and then an encore in late summer and fall. Although Encore azaleas don't offer a profusion of flowers like the common spring bloomers, they make up for it with a much longer blooming period.

What's amazing is the duration of the total flowering period," says Jim Berry, general manager of Plant Development Services, Inc. (PDSI), in Loxley, Alabama. "We've had reports of nine months of flowering in the Coastal South," he says. PDSI owns the patent to propagate Encore azaleas, and they've been working overtime to keep up with the demand.

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