Rhododendron austrinum ‘Millie Mac’ Size:1 Gallon grown for a winter perfume

grown for a winter perfume that belies the tiny flowers that carry it

a ring of narrow

and long regarded as one of the most cold-tolerant of the holly osmanthus

leathery leaves carry the same cool

Raulston acquired seed under that name and shared the resulting bulbs generously through the nursery world

Rhododendron austrinum ‘Millie Mac’ Size:1 Gallon grown for a winter perfume'Millie Mac' is a wild selected native azalea from the damp hollows of Escambia County, Alabama, where Floyd McConnell found this plant as a distinctive limb sport on a wild shrub and propagated it for a beauty all its own. Related to the Florida azalea, Rhododendron austrinum, the selection shows white margined flowers that hint at a touch of R. canescens in the background, and the lineage remains a matter of pleasant debate among native azalea