Other people were doing it, too, sitting all along the wide banisters and leaning over the parapets above, watching the azaleas mass, or just enjoying the sun.

Other improvements included removal of a line of conifers in the Temple walk, which were replaced with plantings of azaleas.

* The author, Virginia Woolf, recorded in a memoir how she herself ' had lain in bed ... thinking that the birds were singing Greek choruses and that King Edward was using the foulest possible language among Ozzie Dickinson's azaleas '

Many of the azaleas, crepe myrtles, ligustrum, and camellias planted in the quadrangle were added to the campus in the 1970s.

The development plans ensured that River Oaks's parks and esplanades were planted with oaks, shrubs, azaleas and other flowers.

Some of his most famous paintings were of his garden in Giverny, famous for its rectangular Clos normand, with archways of climbing plants entwined around colored shrubs, and the water garden, formed by a tributary to the Epte, with the Japanese bridge, the pond with the water lily, the wisterias and the azaleas.

The gardens were landscaped with rhododendrons, azaleas, ornamental trees and fountains.

Sellers decorated their stalls and carts with greenery and flowers, especially azaleas, which were associated with Pentecost, and Dutch sellers would hire skillful African dancers to attract attention to their stalls.

There are beautiful ornamental gardens with heritage roses, camellias, azaleas, as well as a butterfly garden and a reflection pond filled with water lilies and large koi.

Highland Park covers over and features over 1, 200 lilac shrubs ( over 500 varieties ), Japanese maples, 35 varieties of sweet-smelling magnolias, a barberry collection, a rock garden with dwarf evergreens, 700 varieties of rhododendron, azaleas, mountain laurel, andromeda, spring bulbs and wildflowers and a large number of unusual tree species.

Exbury is a informal woodland garden with very large collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, and is often considered the finest garden of its type in the United Kingdom.

The collection of specimen trees and shrubs include towering American White and English Oaks, lindens, tulip trees, bald cypress, and Chinese Golden Larch, as well as different species and cultivars of azaleas, lilacs, viburnums, hollies, weeping cherries and rhododendrons.

The gardens are known for their extensive collections of aroids, azaleas, bamboo, bananas, bromeliads, camellias, citrus, conifers, crepe myrtles, conifers, cycads, ferns, flowering shrubs, flowering trees, gingers, heliconias, hibiscus and mallows, magnolias, ornamental grasses, palms, perennials, roses, trees, and vines.

It contains 288 taxa, including trees, shrubs, and woody vines indigenous to the forested region of Eastern North America, such as shadbush, dogwood, azaleas, mountain laurel, giant rhododendron, sourwood, sweet pepperbush, and evergreens and conifers.

The Caroline Black Garden contains a mature collection of ornamental trees, shrubs, and grasses from across the world, including 187 different woody taxa such as azaleas, Crimson Queen Japanese Maple, Sourwood ( Oxydendrum arboreum ), Japanese Stuartia, fragrant viburnum, weeping cherry, and many other specimens.

It also contains several kinds of azaleas and rhododendrons, plus a variety of other labeled plants, shrubs and trees, as well as a duck pond, playground, and picnic area.

The Arboretum contains thousands of labeled trees and shrubs, including 1, 300 cultivars, with fine collections of dwarf conifers, magnolias, dogwoods, rhododendrons, azaleas and Japanese maples.

Its collections display hundreds of rare shrubs and trees, including camellias, magnolias, roses, and over 160 different types of azaleas.

Every year, Haughton Hall gardens are opened to the public, it features a medium-sized garden ; filled with rhododendrons, azaleas, shrubs, a rock garden, a lake with a temple, a waterfall and a collection of ornamental trees.

Muckross Gardens are famous for their collection of rhododendrons, hybrids and azaleas, and exotic trees.

The Dogwood Festival is a month-long series of events held every spring in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, USA, heralds the seasonal arrival of blooms on dogwoods, azaleas, daffodils, and tulips.

Both species and hybrid rhododendrons ( including azaleas ) are used extensively as ornamental plants in landscaping in many parts of the world, and many species and cultivars are grown commercially for the nursery trade.

Gold of Ophir ) which proved a failure in England's climate ) and many varieties of tree peonies, azaleas and chrysanthemums.

To the north west Meanwood Park borders onto the Hollies, a separate park with sloping woodland containing many rhododendrons and azaleas.

The gardens include palm trees, camellias, wisteria and oleanders, cedar and cypress trees, camphor and eucalyptus, magnolias and azaleas, orange and lemon trees, bamboo and many other kinds of fragrant plants.

* McDonald Azalea and Rhododendron Garden ( 1995 )-more than 500 individual azaleas and rhododendrons of many varieties.

* Battleston Hill, which includes many rhododendrons and azaleas

Satsuki azaleas have a diverse range of flower forms and color patterns with multiple patterns often appearing on a single plant.

It covers over 40 hectares and is famous for rich collections of rhododendrons, azaleas, conifers, lilacc, and other woody species from all over the world.

Without the shade from these trees, the camellias, azaleas, and other shade-loving plants would not be able to survive.

The Azalea Trail is a designated path, planted with azaleas in private gardens, through Mobile, Alabama.

Although the University is located in a major metropolitan area, palm trees, stately oaks, rose bushes, and azaleas can be found in abundance on campus.

The gardens include: an aquatic collection ; butterfly garden and 2, 880 square foot ( 270 m² ) butterfly house featuring pansy exhibits during the winter ; greenhouse for tropical plants ; juniper collection with more than 30 types of junipers ; peony collection of 104 cultivars ; pinetum ; rock garden with sedum and sempervivum ; rose garden with more than 350 rose plants ; sensory garden ; Shakespearean garden ; woodlands with azaleas, dogwoods, elm, hackberry, honey locust, mulberry, osage orange, and redbuds ; and Xeriscape demonstration garden.

When Royal azaleas have turned pink in the end of May, it looks like Sobaeksan wears a pink Jeogori ( Korean traditional jacket ).

In the spring, Gucheon-dong Cherry Blossom Road starting at Rajetongmun located in Seolcheon-myeon is notable for its scenery along with the royal azaleas that line a 28-km-long road in Deokyu Mountain.

It consists of clipped yew pyramids and 16 wedge-shaped beds edged with box hedging and filled with colourful seasonal displays of bulbs, annuals and azaleas in a return to the original nineteenth-century planting schemes devised by the Sutherland's gardener John Fleming.

Exhibits include an acidic sphagnum bog supporting northern species and insectivorous plants, the only shale barren with endemic species in an arboretum, rare endangered large-flowered azaleas, of mature Oak-Hickory Forrest including two identified century specimens, and a species on the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Threatened Species list found protected and propagated at the arboretum: Betula uber, Round-Leaf Birch.

The valleys of the mountain are filled with red royal azaleas in the spring, and green forests draw visitors in the summer.

The lake is surrounded by sloping, wooded gardens with fine collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and kalmia for spring colour, summer wisteria and roses, and spectacular autumn colour.

The shrine is also famous for its kobanomitsuba tsutsuji, azaleas with three small leaves.

* The Deciduous Azaleas collection, with 14 species of deciduous azaleas ( 3 native ).