In article , FACE
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Not the encore variety.

In the neighborhood a lot of azaleas are partially blooming.

Enough in my yard that i have an arrangement on the table.

Of course, their big blooming season is early spring.

Anyone else around Zone 7a seen this?

FACE

I have a few flowers on the PJM rhody this week, & it had a very few
flowers open in October too. There other rhodies producing a single
flower, such as on "Poukhahense Compacta," but nothing approaching full
bloom except on our "Lee's Best Purple" which has a second bloom period
every year (though it's not supposed to) just so long as there's not a
premature freeze to wreck the flowers half-opened. This potential to
bloom at least tepidly in the wrong season can be enhanced by fertilizing
in autumn, which shouldn't be done since rhodies are at greater risk of
winter damage if not properly dormant.

There are also some daffodils putting up grass prematurely, which I hope
doesn't interfer with their blooming properly next spring. Last autumn was
unusually cold, & this autumn is unusually warm; still, it doesn't seem
like our weather patterns this year have been spectacularly odd, & plants
shouldn't be confused what season it is, but some are.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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