The hot-color native azalea and notably heat-tolerant. Provides the orange-red punch the pink Piedmont can't.
Color accents along the path and up the banks, woven into the Piedmont drifts.
Same as Piedmont azalea — acidic, moist, well-drained, leaf-litter mulch.
Straight species; color varies seedling to seedling (buy in bloom if you can).
Native-plant nurseries and GNPS sales.
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