Example sentences for: azaleas

How can you use “azaleas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There’s a marvelous view of the lake from its terraced gardens, much visited for the display of camelias, rhododendrons, and azaleas in late April and May.

  • From Otemachi subway station, you enter the gardens at the Otemon Gate and wander through hedgerows of white and pink azaleas, around ponds and little waterfalls edged with pines, plum trees, canary palms, and soft green cryptomeria japonica.

  • The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.

  • The pleasant daze induced on the three-tiered travertine staircase, festooned in spring with pink azaleas, was celebrated by John Keats as a “blissful cloud of summer indolence” before he died here in 1821.

  • Stone-lanterned paths lead you across hump-bridged ponds to a traditional teahouse set among Japanese maples and azaleas.


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