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Alphonse Anderson Azalea
Rhododendron ‘Alphonse Anderson’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Alphonse Anderson Azalea - Rhododendron ‘Alphonse Anderson’
Among the old Indica azaleas, ‘Alphonse Anderson’ is grown for its soft pink flowers marked with deeper rose flecking and striping, a detail that makes a mass planting look hand-painted rather than uniform. Like the rest of the group this Rhododendron builds a dense, small-leaved evergreen shrub that will hold its shape without much intervention and smother itself in bloom through spring. It is the sort of plant that carries a shaded garden in the weeks before the summer perennials get going.
Why Alphonse Anderson
Flower Markings: Soft pink petals broken by darker rose stripes and flecks, so no two blooms are quite identical.
Flowering Weight: Established plants bloom heavily enough to obscure the foliage for two to three weeks.
Compact Structure: Naturally bushy and low branching, needing only a light shear after flowering.
Filtered Light Tolerance: Performs under high tree canopy and on the shaded side of a house.
Longevity: Indica azaleas are long-lived garden shrubs and will keep improving over decades in the right soil.
Toxicity warning: All parts are toxic to people, dogs, cats and horses if eaten.
Ideal Applications
Shaded garden bed: Massed in threes and fives under a canopy for a strong spring colour block.
Path edging: A low, dense line softening the edge of a garden path or driveway.
Pot and courtyard planting: Suited to large glazed pots in sheltered, part shaded courtyards.
Heritage garden restoration: A period-appropriate choice for older Australian gardens where Indicas were the standard.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.8 to 1m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5 to 2m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring
Soil & Drainage: Acid, humus rich, friable soil that drains freely, avoid lime, builders rubble and heavy wet clay
Establishment Care: Set the root ball slightly high and mulch with pine bark or leaf litter, keeping the mulch off the stems. Water regularly through the first two summers because the shallow root system dries out fast, and shear lightly straight after flowering to keep the plant dense.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5 to 2m
Width: 1.2 to 1.8m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Part shade to filtered light
Native to: A garden cultivar derived from East Asian evergreen azalea species
Flower Colour: Soft pink with deeper rose flecking and striping
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







