Rhododendron flammeum (speciosum) David Geiger and a long bloom season

and a long bloom season makes 'Raritan Chief' one of the most flexible pollinizers in the group

yet they sit on a plant with a far hardier constitution

A maidenhair that comes up pink

hard seeds in a sticky pulp

Rhododendron flammeum (speciosum) David Geiger and a long bloom seasonThe Oconee azalea is the flame azalea of the lowlands, and for a Southern gardener that difference matters. Where the mountain flame azalea pines for cool Appalachian summers, this Piedmont cousin was born to the heat, thriving in the clay hills and stream bluffs of middle Georgia and South Carolina and taking the humidity of the Deep South in stride. The reward is the same fire in the flower: bright orange to orange red trusses, sometimes shading to