Rhododendron austrinum ‘Don’s Variegated’ Highlight and where the thorny branches

and where the thorny branches sit back from a busy path

quite possibly selected from stock supplied by Woodlanders

is more considered

growing where the land loosens and blurs into water: salt marsh margins

or under a window opened to the autumn cool

Rhododendron austrinum ‘Don’s Variegated’ Highlight and where the thorny branchesRhododendron austrinum 'Don's Variegated' is a rare variegated form of the native Florida azalea, carrying the wild flame azalea of the Gulf states but brushed with a fine tracing of gold along each leaf edge. The selection was discovered by Don Jacobs, the noted Georgia plantsman behind Eco Gardens in Decatur, who found among seedlings of R. austrinum a plant whose foliage held light even before the flowers arrived. Variegation is uncommon in the