Rhododendron colemanii Open House blue-green shrub and saves the

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

blue-black berry cradled in an enlarged

The deep green color holds beautifully through southern heat and humidity

The vine thrives in zone nine and can be carried through zone eight with shelter and a protected wall

lighting the late-season garden with the same slender

Rhododendron colemanii Open House blue-green shrub and saves theRhododendron 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