Rhododendron atlanticum George Forrest Few native trees announce spring

Few native trees announce spring like Cercis canadensis

into a famine food

underplant with hellebores

Just to the west

The great virtue is length and weight of bloom: heavy flushes in late summer and fall

Rhododendron atlanticum George Forrest Few native trees announce springRhododendron atlanticum, the coastal or dwarf azalea, is a low, colony forming native of the open pine woods and sandy flatwoods of the mid Atlantic and Carolina coastal plain. Unlike the tall wild azaleas of the mountains, this species stays close to the ground, often no higher than the knee, and spreads by underground runners, or stolons, into broad, drifting colonies. The bluish, glaucous foliage is a hallmark, cool and sea gray, and the species