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Azalea Garden

Maureen K. Chilton Azalea Garden

Year-Round
The Mother’s Day crescendo of white, coral, pink, and purple azalea blossoms is one of the Garden’s most striking seasonal spectacles. Set amongst the dramatic rock outcrops, steep slopes and dappled shade of centuries-old native trees, this garden is beautiful throughout the seasons with plants in bloom nearly every day of the year. Alongside the azaleas and rhododendron, you’ll find a diverse assortment of flowering trees and shrubs, woodland perennials, bulbs, ferns and grasses. Collections in this garden include dogwood, mountain laurel, hydrangea, spice-bush, witch-hazel, epimedium, hosta, hellebore, snow-drop, and ferns.

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Small white flowers growing next to a pathway while three guests walk in the distance below bare tree branches.

Guest walking on pathway next to bare trees and soil below blue skies.

Snow covered tree branches amongst a tall, brown tree trunk and ice covered brown and green bushes.

Snow covered fallen tree trunks, bare tree branches with golden and burgundy witch hazel blooming from the slim, brown tree branches.

Small white flowers blooming next to fallen tree trunk, soil and brown leaves.

Long pathway next to snow covered bushes, grass, and bare trees with a wooden bench in the distance.

Small pink, white and purple azaleas sprouting from small green bushes amongst green bushes, green trees and large, grey rocks,

Magenta, orange-red, light pink, and white azaleas blooming amongst small green bushes and tall trees.

Closeup of pink azaleas with bare trees and one guest out of focus in the distance.

Bright green, small bushes with white, red, pink and purple azaleas blooming in the distance, and a tall brown tree trunk in view.

Closeup of light pink, green and burgundy flowers growing amongst bright green leaves.

Small white flowers blooming on a tree in the distance, pink, white and purple flowers blooming amongst green bushes, and tall green trees.

A wooden bench amongst a pathway, small green bushes, small red flowers sprouting in the distance.

A short foot bridge in the distance adjacent to small bushes of pink and purple flowers, and tall green trees.

A wooden bench sitting on a pathway surrounded by grown bushes, trees and grass below blue skies.

Small white flowers with orange centers growing amongst small green bushes, grey rocks, and a tall tree in the distance.

Portion of long pathway next to small green bushes blooming small purple azaleas amongst tall green trees.

Long pathway surrounded by green grass, and trees with leaves turning orange, red and yellow.

Tall tree with nearly bare branches shedding golden and orange leaves, green and yellow bushes, a large black rock, and sunshine peeking through in the distance.

Pathway surrounded by tall, bare trees and yellow and green bushes.

Tall bare trees shedding the last of its brown and yellow leaves amongst small burgundy and yellow bushes.

Golden and orange leaves on tall trees overlooking a leaf covered pathway, next to small dark green bushes with one guest walking in the distance.

Tall brown trees sprouting burgundy and yellow leaves.

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