The yellowing leaves are 'Guard Leaves', they are usually 2-3 years old and
will be shed over the winter or early spring. Incidentally, when the leaves
turn yellow, the blossoms are white, and when the leaves turn reddish, the
blossoms are red, pink, or lavender.

Check on the undersides of the leaves for evidence of insect poop (little
black dots).

Dave

"Jenny" wrote in message
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We have planted four plants of two different varieties of evergreen
azaleas
this year, one of them "rosebud" and the other something whose name I
forget
that was a nice peach color. They are in an area that stays shaded by the
house until 2 PM and only gets about 4 hours sunlight total. The soil they
are in drains well, but we have had an extremely wet summer.

They were doing fine until the past month when the leaves of both
varieties
got little brown spots all over them just like those of the maples and
other
trees around our property which has been attributed to the very high
rainfall. A small portion of the azaleas' leaves are yellowing, but all
of
them look pretty ratty with brown spots and holes all over them. I don't
see
any sign of insects except for occasional spiderwebs.

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. I am thinking that if they can't survive unaided
where I have put them, I will replace them with something tougher like the
yews which are flourishing beside them, as are my annuals.

-- Jenny (Zone 5 W. Mass on a slightly colder hillside)