Just got home from the cutting exhange and, amazingly enough, we only brough home 4 baggies of cuttings (4-6 per bag) which means that other than the Sergai that I'm gonna try to propagate, looks like we'll only be growing about 20 new azaleas...

The setting for the event, however, was breath-taking... These folks who haven't been members of the Azalea Society but for the last 6 or so months invited us to their place.... Their place??? 10 acreas of wonderful gardens right on the Virginia side of the Potomac River near Fredricksburg... Big money area... They bough 40 years ago for $10,000... Today??? 10 acres in that area on the river is a million dollars... No matter... We had a great time... Food (pot luck) was super...

And only 4 baggies of cuttings!!!

That Betty Ford stuff does work if ya' give it half a chance...

B~