Rhododendron arborescens 'Early' prophouse-winter-2027 though a fond old story

though a fond old story ties the word to the funeral services held once spring thawed the ground

have long seasoned food and steeped into a pleasant herbal tea besides

not only for rarity but for a rare combination of hardiness

The arching flower spikes are built of overlapping bronze-to-pink bracts

Amsonia tabernaemontana grows happily in deep

Rhododendron arborescens 'Early' prophouse-winter-2027 though a fond old storyThis is a remarkable early blooming form of the sweet azalea, Rhododendron arborescens, the tall, hairless twigged native prized for white summer flowers and an intense heliotrope perfume. Where the species is famous as one of the last azaleas to bloom, carrying fragrant white flowers with showy red stamens well into summer, this selection turns that timing on its head. The plant comes from a disjunct population that Woodlanders discovered in Aiken