Tulsa Area Azalea Society

Good morning fellow azalea lovers! As notice to everyone, tomorrow night’s meeting will be canceled so our first meeting of the year will be April 18th at the same regular time and location.

Also, as a reminder to everyone, don’t forget that if you have not renewed your annual dues; you’ll have until March 31st to get that done.

We have a lot to discuss and big plans in the works. I can’t wait to see everyone next month!!

Paul Stratton
TAAS President

We can't wait to see everyone at tomorrow night's monthly meeting!!

HELLO WONDERFUL FRIENDS!! In honor of the historic $4.8mil investment (still in planning stages but updates will follow as the project progresses) by the City of Tulsa to rehabilitate our beloved Azalea Garden at ; we here at TAAS thought it would be fun to do a series release of some vintage photos of the garden. Today we will start with a few pictures of what the garden to be looked like before construction began! so join us on this journey through time as we look back and learn about the history of this six acre plot.

For all of our lovely volunteers that helped (and the wonderful public that enjoys azaleas) with our planting last month; our new azaleas have started their show!

Aaaaand the winner of the new member raffle is!?!?

ALEX RODRIGUEZ!!

Day two of SpringFest and we are waiting for all you lovely visitors! President Paul Stratton and Secretary Dakota Stratton will be at the booth with fellow members Heather Michaelson and Paul Cross joining later in the day. Stop by to have all your questions answered and enter your name into the new member raffle for a chance to win a BEAUTIFUL 3gal Midnight Flare azalea!

GOOOOOD MORNING FRIENDS! Make sure to pay Woodward Park a visit today and stop by our information booth at SpringFest. We are located in the Helmrich Classroom in the south-east corner of the park by the arboretum

Hello, everybody! VP Kelley here posting pics from our big volunteer day in the Azalea Garden at Woodward Park!

This is the Azalea Garden's first privately funded planting in 16 years.

We planted Delaware Valley White, Midnight Flare, Hinodegiri dwarf pink, and Blue Danube. Here are pictures from today.

Volunteers are: Paul Stratton (City of Tulsa/Tulsa Area Azalea society Founder), further abbreviated to TAAS) Heather Michaelson Hale (City of Tulsa/TAAS), Kelley Dunn (City of Tulsa/TAAS), Alex Rodriguez (City of Tulsa), Brian Bovaird (TAAS/Outdoor Classrom), Zoe Hale (Outdoor Classroom), Amanda (Outdoor Classroom), Paul Cross (TAAS), Dakota Stratton (TAAS), Anita, and Webster High School FFA members under Erica Goodson.
Thank you to all of you who helped zoom through the Azalea planting & mulching. We definitely appreciate you & hope to see you in the gardens of Woodward Park again soon!

Thank you to Stringer Nursery & The Tulsa Garden center for lunch.

Today is the big day everyone! Our excitement has been building for six months and we can’t wait for the final reveal. If you have some free time and want to help or just check out the work come on down to Woodward Park; we will be planting and mulching between 10am and 2pm.

GOOOOOOD MORNING FRIENDS! What an exciting week for TAAS! As a reminder, our first monthly meeting of 2022 is tonight at 5:30pm in the Outdoor Classroom at Woodward Park and our volunteer planting day will be 10a-2p this Thursday! Let’s have a blast getting 64 shrubs in the ground with a pizza lunch!!

Good Morning Friends!

The day is upon us to mark your calendars for March 17th, 2022!! On this day, a Thursday and during spring break, from 10a-2p we will be planting the 65 new azaleas we purchased for the Lower Rock Garden in the Woodward Park Azalea Garden. We are also partnering with an area high school FFA chapter to complete this project but if you too are interested in volunteering, let us know and we would be happy to welcome you.

Today we purchased the azaleas which will be planted in March. I’d like to take your time and introduce everyone to the new color scheme for the Lower Rock Garden in the Woodward Park Azalea Garden.