Azalea 'Iłowa’

Description

Azalea Knap Hill "Iłowa" is an impressive deciduous garden azalea, valued for its vivid flower colour and abundant spring blooming. It is a Polish variety with
ornamental, compact habit, perfect for home gardens, heath gardens and collections of acid-loving plants.

🌸 Flower colour:

• Intense pink flowers with a delicate golden-yellow blotch inside the throat.
• The colour is vivid and warm, making the shrub stand out beautifully in flower beds during blooming.

🌼 Flower structure:

• Large, funnel-shaped flowers are gathered in attractive, rounded clusters.
• Blooms abundantly in May and June, creating a highly decorative accent in the garden.
• The flowers look beautiful against the background of young, developing leaves.

🌿 Plant habit:

• A dense, spreading shrub, usually reaching around 1.5–2 m in height and a similar width.
• Green, elliptical, deciduous leaves; in autumn they may turn shades of yellow, orange and red.

🌱 Requirements and Uses:

• Grows best in sunny or semi-shaded positions, sheltered from strong wind.
• Requires acidic, humus-rich, well-drained and moderately moist soil.
• Ideal for heath gardens, naturalistic and woodland-style plantings, as well as compositions with rhododendrons and other acid-loving plants.