Elepidote Rhododendron: 'Night Music'

Flower inside moderate purplish red center blending to dark red at edges, with a dark red flare on upper dorsal lobe, outside base moderate purplish red blending to dark red at edges, with dark red mid ribs, broadly funnel-shaped, wavy lobes, 3⅓" across.  Ball-shaped truss holds 18 flowers.  Blooms midseason.  Leaves elliptic, broadly acute apex, rounded base, 4⅓" long, flat margins, semi-glossy moderate olive green, retained 2 years.  Typical height: 3 feet in 10 years.  Plant and bud hardy to 5°F (-15°C).  Hybridized by Barlup.

Lepidote Rhododendron: 'Gletschernacht'

Flower vivid violet, unmarked, funnel-shaped, about 1⅜" across.  Truss holds 7-8 flowers.  Blooms early midseason.  Leaves elliptic, 1½" to 2" long, yellowish-green.  Compact, dense shrub.  Grows to a typical height of 3 ft. in 10 years.  Cold hardy to -5°F (-21°C).  Hybridized by Hachmann.

Evergreen Azalea: R. kiusianum var. kiusianum

Flower salmon-red, pink, typically purple, or rarely white, funnel-shaped, about 1" across.  Inflorescence has 2-5 flowers.  Blooms midseason to late midseason.  Spring leaves about 1⅔" long, elliptic or obovate, both sides with stiff flat hairs, summer leaves are obovate, 1⅓"- 1¾" long, semi-evergreen to deciduous.  Dense, twiggy, often prostrate plant habit.  Grows to a typical height of 2 ft. in 10 years.  Cold hardy to -10°F (-23°C).  Native to Kyushu, Japan.  The official flower of Unzen, Nagasaki, and Kagoshima Prefectures.

Deciduous Azalea: 'Mount Saint Helens'

Flower yellowish pink with a vivid reddish-orange blotch, widely funnel-shaped, wavy lobed, 2½" across.  Held in ball-shaped truss with 11 flowers.  Blooms midseason.  Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, mucronate, narrowly cuneate, 3" to 4" long, moderate yellowish-green.  Upright plant habit.  Grows approximately 6 ft. tall in 10 years.  Cold hardy to -25°F (-32°C).  Hybridized by Girard.