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Who says that rhododendrons enjoyment comes only during the spring blooming season?

Some people will even grant you that there's a fall season, mostly of foliage, for some plants of the rhododendron genus. They apply this mainly the deciduous azaleas and to a few rhodies that will throw some flowers in late October or November.
BUT DON'T FORGET WINTERTIME!

At the end of December 2003, just before New Year, the weather in Portland, Oregon (USA) went from warm and wet to cold and dry. Many of the rhododendrons and azaleas were impacted by the freezing fog.
	Heavy frost on a bud of the hybrid Medusa
This batch of frost hung on for most of the day. Here the frost is just starting to melt close to the house, at 2 PM.
	Many of the deciduous azaleas show great fall colors. But they usually don't have many leaves left at the end of December
Some of the evergreen azaleas, those that keep their leaves all year long, also show winter color. This one is called Rosebud.
	This small leaved evergreen azalea has so much frost that from a distance the leaves appear more like flowers.
A larger leaved azalea with frost mainly around the leaf margins
	One diagnostic feature of azaleas is that they have fine hairs on the leaf surface. This ground-hugging small azalea has frost stuck only to the hairs on the leaf surface. If you've never noticed the hairs before, here they are, clearly shown in white ice.

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