Rhododendron 'QbackB' (Sunbow Solar Flare) Boost Give morning sun or filtered

Give morning sun or filtered light

A single plant makes a living exclamation point beside a gate

by any honest measure

First described in the early nineteenth century

and thin rocky or clay soils where little else will grow

Rhododendron 'QbackB' (Sunbow Solar Flare) Boost Give morning sun or filteredSunbow Solar Flare is the patented name for the azalea catalogued as Rhododendron 'QbackB' (U. S. Plant Patent 27,083), a deciduous native hybrid bred for the very conditions that defeat most azaleas. The plant traces to a deliberate cross made in 1984 by Robert Edward Lee in Folsom, Louisiana, who set out to combine the fragrance and vivid color of the Gulf Coast's own Florida azalea, Rhododendron austrinum, with the substance of the Exbury hybrids.