Figured it couldn't be too rare so I reviewed a couple obvious online sources with photographs.

"Strong shoots often produce purple flowers; however, these same lateral shoots will give flowers of the correct color pattern thereafter. Broad and spreading,"

When i moved here it was over run with weeds and holly seedlings and in the process of rescuing it had to cut a few branches back. When these regrew is where I saw the strong purple flowers.

It's kind of a shame because I might like the sold purple better than the somewhat precious bicolored ones. I have a few for various reasons but I generally don't like rhodos or azaleas that look high hybridized and have improbable bicolored combinations. That being said a plant like Hank's 'Orange Hose-in-Hose-ola" is over the top when viewed close up but gives an astonishingly different orange sherbet color from a distance, so is worth having for that reason.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.greergardens.com/evergreen.htm

This post was edited by davidrt28 on Sat, May 18, 13 at 18:35

I'm not a fan of a lot of azaleas in my yard, but I do have a few -- mostly they came with the house! But if I had this one (yours), I'd be thrilled.

There is one very similar to it, if not identical to yours, in a neighbor's yard, growing mostly in shade. I'd love to get a cutting.

On Harold Greer's website you listed above, look at Martha Hitchcock.

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