Bring bold color and year-round beauty to your landscape with Azalea 'Girard’s Hot Shot', shipped in a 1-gallon pot and ready to plant. This eye-catching evergreen azalea is prized for its vibrant red-orange blooms with attractive ruffled edges that create a spectacular display in mid to late spring. Its dense, mounding growth habit makes it perfect for foundation plantings, borders, woodland gardens, and patio containers. Lustrous green foliage provides beauty throughout the growing season and often develops attractive reddish-bronze tones during winter. Easy to grow and highly ornamental, 'Girard’s Hot Shot' delivers outstanding color and garden performance in a compact package.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Girard’s Hot Shot Azalea plant
✔️ Shipped in 1-gallon pot
✔️ Healthy, rooted plant
✔️ Evergreen flowering shrub
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information
Common Name: Girard’s Hot Shot Azalea
Botanical Name: Rhododendron 'Girard’s Hot Shot'
Plant Type: Evergreen flowering shrub
Growth Stage: Established plant
Sun Requirements: Partial shade to filtered sunlight
Soil: Acidic, well-draining soil enriched with organic matter
Watering: Moderate; maintain consistent moisture during dry periods
Mature Height: 2–3 feet
Growth Rate: Moderate
USDA Zones: 5–8
Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip: Apply mulch around the base to help retain moisture and keep roots cool. Prune lightly after flowering to maintain a dense shape and encourage vigorous new growth.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.