Applications for this year’s WRAL Azalea Celebration competition are now being accepted from non-profit organizations. The deadline for applications is September 9, 2006 and the winners will receive their plants on October 21, 2006.

If you’d like to obtain an application to enter the competition, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

Azalea Celebration
P.O. Box 12509
Raleigh NC 27605

This is the 21st year of the WRAL Azalea Celebration and 10,000 plants will be given to non-profit groups. Those plants will help WRAL and Capitol Broadcasting Company top the 200,000 mark in the number of plants given away in the WRAL Azalea Celebration over the past two decades.

For more about the annual WRAL Azalea Celebration and a list of past award winners, visit the WRAL Gardens website.