Heat-tolerant, beautifully blooming Rhododendrons? 🌸 Yes please! These spring bloomers are hardy to USDA zones 6-9 and love partial to full shade. Growing 4-5’ high & wide, these blooms are sure to add a pop of color to your garden! ☁️ #rhododendron #shadegarden #gardening #plants #horttube | Southern Living Plant Collection

Since rhododendrons are done or almost done blooming, pruning around now will optimize blooms for next year. However, you can also prune these later—they just might not produce as many flowers because they will start to create new buds now and you’ll miss that opportunity so it may take another year to get blooms. So be it and don’t worry too much about the timing—just get it done and the plant will be better off.These plants here were doing ok but very sparse in the middle. If the layer of grow