"Jenny" wrote:

My question is, since these are evergreen varieties, will the leaves stay
crappy looking, or will the plant eventually grow new leaves in the spring
to replace the damaged ones and look okay? I don't want to go spraying
poisons on these plants.

An evergreen azalea keeps its leaves about 2 or 3 years. It will grow
new leaves next spring and will shed the oldest leaves sometime during
the year.

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