The guy ain't me... But that is the P-Vine... She is the president of the Northern Va. Azalea Society Chapter and he is the VP... We just had a sale of hybrids that our chapter had hibridized overr then years...
The opening pic isn't really of any gardens to speak of... It's of our runoff pond with the mountains in the background... We are at 1700 feet here on Tanner's Ridge and what you are looking up at is around 4000 feet...
The pic with the wooden structure that looks like a room without walls of roof is exactlt that... It's a pergolla I designed an built and surrounded by boxwood, holly, NC jasmin up the posts...
On the other side of uit that you can't see is my pea-gravel bed with crimpomeria, thunderhaed pine (dwaft), gold thread, grand-bande boxwood, etc...
Yo, Janie... Welcome to azaleas... BTW, there is a North Carolina chapter... Good source of plants (cheap or free)...