Azaleas are everywhere in Silver Spring and Takoma Park, Maryland. Right now they are at their blooming best. In the older mature neighborhoods close to Downtown Silver Spring, the azalea cover is like no other. If you take a drive or walk during azalea season you'll see about 8 of every 10 homes with one or two or more of these shrubs gracing their landscapes.
The older sections of the neighborhood of Sligo Park Hills (sections 1 & 2) that run from Sligo creek up to Piney Branch Road might have the best displays, due to a resident that worked with the Director of the National Arboretum to hybridize azaleas.
Stuart Armstrong lived on Park Crest Drive in Sligo Park Hills from 1938 till his death in 1970. Armstrong was an avid amateur horticulturalist who served as 
president of the American Horticultural Society between 1957 and 1960.
He was said to have given plants to his neighbors in Sligo Park Hills as gifts. There is an azalea named "Stuart Armstrong" grown mostly in the mid atlantic and the south.
Over a period of more than 30 years, Armstrong amassed a sprawling collection of azaleas in his yard overlooking Sligo Creek Park.
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