Bob, Regarding your recent inquiry about sources for North Tisbury hybrids, I contacted the Polly Hill Arboretum and asked if they maintained a list of...
Bob, Those folks were right pretty prompt in getting back to me. Here is the somewhat dated list of sources provided by the Polly Hill Arboretum. Bill Miller ...
Bill The Mass Chapter P4M often carries Polly Hill's azaleas. We could certainly make cuttings available to other Chapters next year with the caution that in...
Most all the Polly Hill evergreen azaleas have nakaharae in their bloodline and a more cascading form then the "Bovee" form of the species. Bob Bovee of the...
Can anyone tell me when the prime time for viewing azaleas is in Savanna? I'm planning a trip and am aiming at the first week in March. Paul Lightfoot ...
Lightfoot, Paul
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Jan 4, 2008 12:52 pm
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Does any one have or know where I can buy a plant of the evergreen azalea 'Plum Crazy' also know as 'Rosa Belton'? Monrovia sold it at one time but no longer...
racantrell
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Jan 4, 2008 7:43 pm
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Allen ; Long Mountain by Wash.DC---- maybe someone near the D.C area can buy it for you and then ship it or deliver during this years convention. Tadeusz.-...
Allen, I don't grow it but I did photograph 'Plum Crazy' on one of the garden tours at the ARS Convention in San Francisco last April. I think was in the...
4 January 2008 Allen, You can get the 'Rosa Belton' and the 'Rosa Belton Double' from Tom Nuccio in Altadena. Nuccio's Nurseries 3555 Chaney Trail Altadena,...
George Klump
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Jan 4, 2008 10:40 pm
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GeorgeK, I just received a Nuccio's nursery catalog and am greatly impressed with their lists. When is the best time for someone in the "now COLD" Southeast ...
Don, the Pryor Dwarf azalea you mentioned below could be one of several Beltsville dwarf azaleas that Robert Pryor developed. One is 'Little White Lie'. Or it...
4 January 2008 Mike, You can order from Tom just about anytime, as far as I know. Of course, when I go over there, I'm going to pick up something. However,...
George Klump
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Jan 5, 2008 5:31 am
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Hi Mike, Allen Cantrell pointed me to an article in an old ARS Journal (Vol. 42 No. 2 - Spring 1988) where Bob Badger quotes some 1987 notes of Augie Kehr on...
Some deciduous azaleas are tetraploids and are capable of good genetic transfers. "Plum Crazy", like its equivalent "Rosa Belton", was a white with purple or...
George Klump
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Jan 5, 2008 5:56 pm
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Has anyone been to this? http://www.tylerazaleatrail.com/index.htm I like the idea. John Perkins Salem, NH...
No one seems to have recently published a list of tetraploid evergreen azaleas. That would be interesting. I have grown evergreens that seem tetraploid in...
John, Yes, we (plus or minus a hundred or so) spent a delightful time in Nacogdoches, Tx with one day in Tyler and visited the gardens along the Azalea Trail....
Happy New Year, all, I wonder if Earl Sommerville, or any of you familiar with Earl's azaleas, might help me identify the seedling depicted in the attached...
Jim, This is a plant that Earl donated to the North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville in 1994. The 2001 ASA Convention obtained quite a number of plants from the ...
Thanks John, Here is a better picture of the same plant. this is the one I meant to send with my first message. As I said before, the plant is a good grower...
this is from the ASK US page, so please send me a CC. I read a book recently and in it, it was mentioned that the azalea plant if ingested can be fatal. Is...
Andrew and Sherrice
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Jan 6, 2008 6:09 pm
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Hi Andrew, Azaleas and rhododendron (A&R) are certainly toxic --- not for human consumption. You would probably have to eat a lot to get a fatal dose. A book...
[this is from the ASK US page, so please send me a CC] I live in Central Texas, zone 8b, Bastrop County. The soil is very sandy, with an abundance of native...
E C Sherman
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Jan 6, 2008 7:13 pm
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Paul, try a google search for Savannah Georgia azalea bloom. Will you be flying it or driving? What is your route? Let me know your plans. Mike Creel Below...
Hi E C, If your azaleas are growing well --- that is, the leaves are green without any indication of chlorosis or a sickly anemic appearance --- and the canopy...
E.C, your area sounds like the 7 acres of fall line sandhills where I live and grow many azaleas, both evergreen and deciduous in central South Carolina, but ...
Hi Jim, This was a cross that I made in 1994, crossing plants number #39x#48 ( Red Specioum x Yellow Austrinum ) turned out to be a very good plants. The...
6 January 2008 Greetings, E.C., Bill is right about the shade factor. Too much shade will inhibit the formation of blooms. If cutting out some of the shade is...
George Klump
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Jan 6, 2008 11:26 pm
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Thank you so much for your reply, Earl. Its a great plant! jim willhite west chester, pa ... From: "Earl Sommerville" <earlsommerville@...> ... Hi...
The answer is yes: this is a possibility, especially with small children. Many plants have toxins in them. They're for looking at rather than eating. George...
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