{"id":518,"date":"2011-10-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=518"},"modified":"2014-04-08T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:22:12","slug":"fall-color-in-our-native-azaleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/10\/04\/fall-color-in-our-native-azaleas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Color in U.S. Native Azaleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_520\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/R.-vaseyi-fall-color.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-520\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-520\" title=\"R. vaseyi fall color\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/R.-vaseyi-fall-color-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/R.-vaseyi-fall-color-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/R.-vaseyi-fall-color-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/R.-vaseyi-fall-color.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R. vaseyi fall color<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, Americans are paying closer attention to our wonderful native plants. In the Southern Appalachian region, there are 16\u00a0 and more species of deciduous azaleas which may be grown here. In addition, there are numerous natural hybrids growing in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Jay Jackson, owner of Appalchian Native Plants, Inc. in Laurel Bloomery, TN which deciduous azaleas offer the best fall color. He rated these six as the\u00a0best:<\/p>\n<p>Pinkshell azalea (<em>R. vaseyi<\/em>)<br \/>\nSweet or smooth azalea (<em>R.arborescens<\/em>)<br \/>\nSwamp azalea (<em>R.viscosum<\/em>)<br \/>\nNatural hybrids of (<em>R. arborescens<\/em>) x (<em>R. cumberlandense<\/em>)<br \/>\nCumberland or bakeri (<em>R. cumberlandense<\/em>)<br \/>\nFlame azalea (<em>R. calendulaceum<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The species rating order may change from year to year\u00a0with\u00a0the weather conditions prior to fall foliage color-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Americans are paying closer attention to our wonderful native plants. In the Southern Appalachian region, there are 16\u00a0 and more species of deciduous azaleas which may be grown here. In addition, there are numerous natural hybrids growing in the mountains. I asked Jay Jackson, owner of Appalchian Native Plants, Inc. in Laurel Bloomery, TN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,711,705,706,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6095,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/6095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}