Silver Sword Japanese Gardens

Silver Sword Japanese GardensSilver Sword' has interesting variegated foliage on a low mounding plant with red flowers, blooming in April. It is easy to find a spot for this azalea. Its nice variegated foliage offers a wonderful contrast to other plants in the garden. Developed by the Girards in the late 1940's, who were looking to produce compact, hardy evergreen azaleas for use in landscaping and containers. This plant will brighten up any shady corner.

Winning multiple awards

and is hard to find and purchase

But when a terminal is established it shoots straight up with rare branches

Ruffled edges add to the beauty of the flowers

Very unusual

A low mounding evergreen azalea with 1 inch clear pink flowers

The plant is later flowering than most

occidentale cultivars

but still allows excess water to drain away

this may have been a sport off of 'Ellwoodii'

making it an excellent choice for the rock garden or model railroad landscape

The blooms open in May