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Who knew all this would happen afterwards! The view out my window Oct. 30, 2024. They all fall down...autumn leaves decided last night it was time to let go!

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Flame Azaleas


This azalea form is native to North Carolina mountains. But here in the apartment complex it has been pruned, like everything else.




Today's quote:

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead 


~ Rainer Maria Rilke

13 comments:

  1. Hello,

    The Flame Azaleas are pretty. Have they pruned them too much?
    Happy Sunday, wishing you a great new week!

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    1. And they look as bright when you come upon them in the North Carolina woods.

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  3. ...native azaleas are among the best.

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    1. I wonder if there are any other colors which are native...

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  4. I don't know why it never occurred to me that azalea is a native species. Beautiful flaming color.

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    1. I must continue to wonder how all the bright pink varieties happened.

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    1. Which is why it's called a flame azalea...isn't it neat?

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  6. We have a few wild ones in the woods--but though I've tried planting nursery bought flames azaleas, I haven't yet found the formula that will keep them alive more than a few years.

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    1. These were put in at the apartment complex just when I moved here in 2016...so they may survive with all the pruning and herbicides. I think we have very few natural bugs left around for the birds, poor little ones.

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