Azalea ‘Girard’s Hot Shot’ Live Evergreen Azalea | Red Orange Blooming Shrub | Compact Cold Hardy Plant

Add bold color and compact evergreen beauty to your landscape with Azalea ‘Girard’s Hot Shot’, a striking flowering shrub prized for its vivid reddish-orange blooms and dense rounded growth habit. In midseason, this evergreen azalea produces clusters of openly funnel-shaped flowers accented with deep red to maroon spotting, creating a fiery display against glossy green foliage.

Its compact size and naturally well-branched form make it ideal for borders, foundation plantings, woodland gardens, and decorative containers. Cold hardy and easy to maintain, ‘Girard’s Hot Shot’ provides year-round structure and vibrant seasonal color in smaller garden spaces. You will receive a healthy container-grown plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Azalea ‘Girard’s Hot Shot’ shrub
✔️ Width: approximately 4–8 inches wide
✔️ Grown in #1 nursery container
✔️ Healthy, rooted evergreen azalea
✔️ Root ball wrapped securely for safe shipping

Growing Information
Common Name: Girard’s Hot Shot Azalea
Botanical Name: Rhododendron ‘Girard’s Hot Shot’
Plant Type: Evergreen flowering shrub
Growth Stage: Young container-grown plant
Sun Requirements: Partial shade to filtered sun
Soil: Acidic, moist, well-draining soil
Watering: Moderate; keep soil evenly moist
Mature Height: Approximately 2 feet
Mature Width: Approximately 2 feet
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
USDA Zones: 5–8
Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip: Mulch around the base to maintain cool soil temperatures and consistent moisture. Remove spent blooms after flowering to encourage healthy growth and maintain a clean appearance.

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.