His Shangri-La was an azalea garden situated alongside a cypress-tupelo swamp.

The arboretum includes extensive lilac and pine collections, a large azalea garden, a yellow magnolia grove, and a flowering tree grove.

Day-trippers should spend time at the 40-acre azalea garden, the butterfly center and the new discovery center, now showing an exhibit on raptors.

More on Bamboo After an absence of 10 years, I found my camellia and azalea garden in Virginia Beach overgrown with bamboo.

His azalea gardens first opened to the public in 1946, but in the mid-1950s they were destroyed by very cold weather.

Close to the busy A48, between Lydney and Aylburton, these beautiful rhododendron and azalea gardens are set in a peaceful lakeland valley.

The azalea garden and succulent garden are both local attractions, and many tourists are seen taking pictures of the flowers.

The plantings were newly installed in 2006 within an older azalea garden.

Also, visitors are invited the hike the trails, tour the interpretive museum, and most of all - see the native azalea gardens!

The azalea garden proper started in 1952 by Mr. Robert E. Harvey, a former Recreation and Parks Superintendent.