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"Anne Lurie" wrote in message
om...
Actually, the header is a misnomer -- I meant that I'm asking a new
question about azaleas, not about new azaleas, but what the heck!

Among the many azaleas here when we bought our house in 1998 are two
*large*
ones, planted in less than optimal locations -- too close to each other
&
too close to our house -- which I have pruned severely on several
occasions in the last 5 years, most recently so the housepainter could get
near the house to paint it.

My question: could anyone point me toward a source for identifying these
monsters? I'm apparently doing something right as far as maintaining
them,
but I'd like to get an idea what they might be. Right now, these things
are
taller than I am; I'd guess that they could grow 3 or 4 feet a year (based
on what they have done in the past, including last year's drought).

Just for fun -- and because I'm constantly trying to find reasons to
have
less grass to mow -- I'd like to try planting an azalea of this type
(moving either of these is out of the question unless MacDaddy wants to
pay
me to take it away), just to see what it could do if it actually had some
space to call its own!

Anne Lurie
NE Raleigh