Rhododendron colemanii Open House his near-twin

his near-twin

removing it in spring

these are the roses you still find blooming alone at abandoned homesteads

lighting the late-season garden with the same slender

blue-green shrub and saves the show for the dead of winter

Rhododendron colemanii Open House his near-twinRhododendron colemanii, the Red Hills azalea, is one of the most recently recognized of all the native deciduous azaleas, first described as a distinct species only in 2008. For years the plant was folded in with the Alabama azalea, Rhododendron alabamense, which blooms earlier and holds consistently white, yellow blotched flowers; the Red Hills azalea, by contrast, flowers later and in a wider range of color. The species takes its home ground from