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Azalea Glen is the residence and mature collection of mostly evergreen azaleas of
Nancy and Charlie Evans, located nine miles north of Washington, DC, and two miles
east of the Potomac River in Potomac, MD.
The first plantings of conventional
varieties of Kurume azaleas included 'Hinodegiri', 'Hino-red,' 'Snow', 'Coral Bells',
'Christmas Cheer', 'Palestrina', 'Delaware Valley White', and 'Cherry Bells' from
the local commercial nursery trade of the time were added to the new house and landscaped
one acre property in the then semi-rural hunt country of Potomac over 50 years ago.
Some of these varieties remain largely where the plants were originally planted on a
shady hillside under a canopy of beech, oak and tulip popular trees just to the south
side of the house.
The majority of the other azaleas that were obtained from ASA and ARS members as
cuttings and young plants were added during the 1980's and are found in five major
sunny and partially shaded beds of varying sizes located predominately along the
remaining perimeter of the suburban property. Several or more varieties of the older
traditional Ryukyu, Indian, Kurume and Kurume-related subgroups, Satsuki, Gable,
Glenn Dale and Back Acres hybrid groups along with varieties from the Robin Hill,
Linwood, Girard and Harris hybrids developed during the closing decades of the
20th century are represented in the several hundred specimens randomly distributed
throughout the beds at Azalea Glen.
The azalea blooming season at Azalea Glen normally is from March into July with peak
bloom from mid April through late-May. In any given year approximately 200 different
evergreen and deciduous azalea varieties flower between March and July at Azalea Glen.
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