LOOKS LIKE RAIN
RED JADE FLOWERING CRAB APPLE
HARDY AZALEASSaturday, 7:15 AM. 52 degrees, wind W, very light. The sky is overcast with high gray clouds and the barometer predicts rain.
We installed the landscape in the photos last fall and I am very pleased with the results, particularly the azaleas at the back deck. They are ‘Rosy Lights’ and ‘White Lights,” plants of the ‘Lights’ azaleas introduced by the University of Minnesota. The whole series is hardy in Bayfield. Azaleas and Rhododendrons are all in the genus Rhododendron, the primary difference being that azaleas are deciduous and rhododendron leaves persistent. Rhododendron species occur throughout the Northern Hemisphere with a few in Australia, and there has been much horticultural hybridization. There are a dozen species throughout southeastern Canada and the eastern and southern U.S. Wisconsin has one native Rhododendron, the Lapland rose bay, a glacial relict occurring along the Dells of the Wisconsin River.
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