Bobert and P-vine,

HELP!!!!

I have a number of pink azaleas that are of small stature, small leaves and small, densely packed blooms. They all appear to be of the same variety - slightly earlier than the rest of the azaleas I inherited here. Also a number of nearly red azaleas. Most have large blooms, though one as smaller blooms and a different growth habit from the rest of the reds.

The blooms on all of the pinks and the one red with small blooms have turned brown. So far, at least, the large bloomed reds and the azaleas you folks gave me are unaffected. All of them also bloom a tad later.

In Hillsborough, I had one white azalea that developed a fungal disease that also hit the camelia) and had to take it out. What has happened with the azaleas here looks different, and also has not happened the 2 preceeding springs I have been here. The plants are covered in brown, dead flowers. Not mushy. Still firmly attached to the shrub. If we had experienced an unexpected, late, hard frost, that is what I would attribute it to. But that didn't happen. The brown flowers are crisp, and well-attached to the plant.