When you click on the Calendar menu tab at the top of any of our web pages, you will open our calendar. Here you will find our scheduled meetings, field trips, and other events.

We offer three ways to look at scheduled dates: chronologically (by year), by month, and by category (meetings, field trips, other events). You can also search for a particular event. In any of these views, clicking on an event will open a page with more details, including the contact for more information. Use the back tab at the top left of the screen to go back to the previous page.

2019 is already filling up with interesting meetings with many field trips and other events included. You may see, download, or print the entire yearly schedule here. When updates and changes to the schedule occur, we will notify you through this news blog.

We plan to have a full season of field trips for 2019. Keep checking our Calendar and this News Blog for specific dates. As you know, bloom times can vary greatly; they could be earlier than normal this year.  We will offer car pools whenever we can. Possible locations for trips include:

• Roswell Mill area, Fulton County, GA (April) [R. canescens, flammeum, calendulaceum]
• Lumpkin County, GA (April & May) [canescens, calendulaceum, arborescens]
• Dawson Forest, Dawson County, GA (April & May) [canescens + ??]
• Hall County, GA (April & May) [canescens, arborescens, calendulaceum, + ??]
• Sawnee Mountain, Forsyth County, GA (April-May) [minus]
• Vickery Creek Trail at the Roswell Mill Ruins (April-May)
• Hamilton Rhododendron Gardens (May) [rhododendron species and hybrids]   location of our April/May combined Chapter meeting on May 5, 2019 
• Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (May) [vaseyi]
• Red Hills section, AL (May) [colemanii]
• Santee River watershed, SC (May) [eastmanii]
• Mount Cheaha, AL (May) [cumberlandense, arborescens, periclymenoides]
• Tray Mountain, GA (April-May) [calendulaceum + ??]
• Vogel State Park, GA (May-June) [cumberlandense, calendulaceum, + ??]
• Hooper Bald, NC (June) [calendulaceum]
• Wine Spring and Wayah Balds (June) [arborescens, calendulaceum]
• Providence Canyon, GA (late July-early August) [prunifolium]
• Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (October) [fall foliage]

Let us know if you are interested in any of these trips and have any other ideas of places to explore.

Welcome to 2019! We at the Azalea Chapter ARS are looking forward to spring. More of our past Azalea Blooms newsletters have been added to our website. We think they are outstanding, interesting, colorful, and packed with information. We believe in pictures! Of course, if you want to read our newsletters in a timely manner as soon as they are released, become a member of our chapter and have them sent hot off the electronic press directly to your email inbox.  

In these past newsletters just posted here on our site, you will find information not only on our meetings and field trips, but also on spectacular members’ gardens, the best annual azalea and rhododendron plant sale in the Southeast, Rhododendron flammeum, Growing Rhododendrons in Atlanta, Creel-way propagation, members gardens, seed dispersal, reason for botanical names,  Magnolias, double flowers, ornamental grasses, and much more.

Our meetings are an excellent way to grow in knowledge about not only azaleas, but other companion plants.  Socials help us to get to know our fellow members a little better and enjoy delicious dishes as well.  The newsletter continues to keep you updated on activities as well as providing a forum for interesting articles.   I look forward to 2020 and another great year for the Azalea Chapter.

Jan Nicholson

We have just added a new website feature for our Azalea Chapter members: a discussion forum. This forum is limited to members of our chapter and our close friends.

Create an Account

You must first create an account to use the forum, and your user account must be approved by the site administrator before you can access the forum.

The reason is two-fold: Public forum sites get all sorts of spam and worse. We are not interested in how to make an extra $2,000 a month from our home with almost no effort. In just a few days of creating the forum, we received several requests to join from foreign addresses with unintelligible names. How they found us so quickly I do not know. Secondly, our intention is to have a small group where one will feel able to ask questions without being intimidated. You will be among friends here, with novices and experts both, ready to learn, share experiences, and tell stories of what we have seen in the woods or in our gardens.

Access the Forum

To join the forum, click on the Forums tab at the top of the page and create a new account. we will need your name, a short user name, and email address. You will also choose a password to secure you account. Your account must be approved by the website administrator. Once approved, to access the forum topics, just login with your user name and password and click on the topics you want to see or enter a new one.

Start Discussing

It is easy to add a new topic yourself or reply to one already posted. Click on the appropriate button and start typing. When finished, click on Preview and finally click Submit.

Questions?

If you have any questions after signing up, just ask in the General Topics category. We'll try to get you an answer. We are just learning ourselves.

Not a Member? Please Join

If you are not yet a member of our chapter, join us. We like to share information on azaleas and other rhododendrons.