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home and plant it somewhere. somewhere. it plant and home

of bloom. Or you just see a really pretty one blooming at a a at blooming one pretty really a see just you Or bloom. of

be regarded as a bit, let's say, fastidious. But for those of us us of those for But fastidious. say, let's bit, a as regarded be

so often I would see yards with orangey red azaleas planted planted azaleas red orangey with yards see would I often so

nursery that by itself is so stunning that you have to take it it take to have you that stunning so is itself by that nursery

time to plant is in the fall when conventional azaleas are out out are azaleas conventional when fall the in is plant to time

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mony involving azaleas is easy to understand: The optimal optimal The understand: to easy is azaleas involving mony

near hot pink ones. The frequency of this kind of dishar- of kind this of frequency The ones. pink hot near

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same sun/shade in Zone 7a. 7a. Zone in sun/shade same

same time with complementary colors and all want about the the about want all and colors complementary with time same

the late blooming Glenn Dale 'Sagittarius'; they bloom the the bloom they 'Sagittarius'; Dale Glenn blooming late the

genial neighbors. As I am writing these words (June 2011), 2011), (June words these writing am I As neighbors. genial

taken into account. account. into taken

who want to go beyond the joys of plant collecting, there are are there collecting, plant of joys the beyond go to want who

I am contemplating moving either a a either moving contemplating am I

on hue by the amount of sun exposure to the bloom—to be be bloom—to the to exposure sun of amount the by hue on

lots of challenges of bloom time and hue—even the effect effect the hue—even and time bloom of challenges of lots

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or a Hydrangea 'Endless Summer' to bloom next to to next bloom to Summer' 'Endless Hydrangea a or

Green and Gold Gold and Green

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Corpus —two florida—two Corpus

(Chrysogonum virginianum). virginianum). (Chrysogonum

Campanula poschar- Campanula happy natives. natives. happy

Photo W II Ferrel with TatawbienseBoursalt'.Ihighlyrecommendthese with 'PurpleSplendor','Fairfax''Youth'and'Martha with 'Karen','WillieMae''Herbert','MadamePericat' with purpleazaleas—inthisvein,Ilove'SpringtimeBlush' to bementionedistheSatsuki`Kusadama','NovaZembla', tos ofharmoniouscombinationsthathavegivenmepleasure open-ended subject.Perhapsmythrowingoutthesecom- gardening, history,economics,ideas,andmusic. very favoritecombinationofpastelpinkorlavanderpaired in myyard.Ihaveincludedamongthephotoslittleof pairings. Hitchcock', 'Ring'sOrchido'with'Terry',andWatchet' ative pairings. and cranesbillgeranium'Johnson'sBlue'.Thisisavery binations willprovokeotherazalealoverstosharetheircre- Will Ferrell Another (unphotograhed)greatcombinationwhichbegs At anyrate,Ithoughtitmightbefuntoshareafewpho- • Heat-tolerant Exbury'Klondyke is asemi-retireddentistwhoseinterestsinclude backed by'CatawbienseBoursalt'. • Wyatt Lefeverdeciduoushybrid • backedby'ElsieLee*.

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