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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (4657)	2/25/2003 9:17:22 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Hi Bill - any help with rhodies is appreciated. They are kind of hard to get going around here. The shop that sold me the plants has a nice man (several, probably) on duty at all times to answer questions about What Went Wrong. We have very heavy clay soil, which assumes a brick like character when dry, and it was extremely dry here during the summer. No rain at all for many weeks. Rhodies like their soil light and fluffy. We probably didn't amend the soil out far enough for rhodies. On the other hand, late in the summer I planted some flame azaleas, also members of the rhodie family, which grow wild around here (Virginia), and they did fine. The ones that died were Japanese varieties, which love the Pacific Northwest. So maybe the answer is to plant local varieties. On the third hand, I love the outrageous colors of the Japanese rhodies, scarlet, magenta, lavender, royal purple. No cobalt blue. Blue is actually a rare color for flowers. nfldgarden.homestead.com Flame azaleas are cool, though: jessiesgarden.com members.tripod.com clarkandco.cc