Ever After™ Ruby Reblooming Azalea

Deep ruby blooms in spring, then again through summer and into fall — a reblooming azalea that refuses to quit after one show.

The Ever After™ Ruby Reblooming Azalea (Rhododendron x ‘RLH2-2PA1S’) is an evergreen shrub bred for one of the longest bloom windows in its class. Where traditional azaleas flower hard for two or three weeks each spring and then fade to green, this cultivar opens its first flush of rich, jewel-toned ruby-red flowers in spring and keeps reb-blooming on new growth through summer and into autumn. It settles into a tidy, rounded mound of glossy dark-green foliage that holds through winter, reaching 3 to 4 feet tall and wide at a moderate pace — compact enough for foundations and borders, full enough to read as a real anchor.

Why growers choose the Ever After™ Ruby

• Reblooms spring to fall. A heavy spring flush is followed by repeat waves of bloom on new wood, so the color returns again and again instead of ending in May.
• Saturated ruby color. The flowers are a deep, true red — vivid against the dark evergreen leaves and far more intense than the typical pinks of older azaleas.
• Evergreen all year. Glossy foliage stays on the plant through winter, giving structure and green when the rest of the bed is bare.
• Cold-hardy and dependable. Rated for USDA zones 6 through 9, it takes real winters while still thriving in warm-summer Southern gardens.
• Compact, well-behaved habit. A naturally rounded 3-to-4-foot form needs little shaping, making it easy to place and easy to keep.

Use it as a low evergreen hedge along a walk, a flowering foundation planting beneath windows, a repeating accent in a mixed shrub border, or a long-blooming feature in a large container by the door. In part shade under high trees or in morning sun with afternoon protection, it brings months of color to spots where most flowering shrubs give you only weeks.