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Azalea 'Hotspur Red' in it's autumn colour.


Azalea 'Hotspur Red' in it's autumn colour.

When hubby and I go out choosing things for the garden, we have an unwritten competition going between us if we both buy something that one of us has chosen, whose choice is the better one. I have to say he won this shopping trip with choosing this. Not only does it have stunning flowers in the spring, I love the colour the foliage turns in the autumn. I've just not admitted to him that he won :-)



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Lol - do you go round separately each with a trolley?

13 Oct, 2017

 

Lol, now there is an idea :-). Maybe that way I would get more plants! We only have one trolley, but if one of us see something that really catches our eye, we have been know to wonder off and then just put it in the trolley.

14 Oct, 2017

 

Sounds good to me. My OH knows plants are green and have flowers, and he likes the red ones....

14 Oct, 2017

 

Lol. My OH knows about plants, knows what he like, just not interested in working in the garden. Today he did help me saw off a branch, but then left me to clear it up. He mows the grass, helps plan the garden, then I do the work.

14 Oct, 2017

 

Never seen a purple leafed Azalea. Deciduous?

14 Oct, 2017

 

Hi Stan yes it is. Spring leaves are green and just turns purple in Autumn. We only bought it this year. Hubby saw it in flower and fell in love with it.

15 Oct, 2017

 

It will look great in spring nice one.

16 Oct, 2017

 

Thanks Dawn. It was late spring when we bought it, and it was totally covered in large orange/red flowers. That what made hubby buy it. :-).

16 Oct, 2017

 

Good choice by your hubby.

16 Oct, 2017

 

Thanks Dawn, as I said above, I'm just not admitting it to him :-).

17 Oct, 2017

 

Hard to admit when a man gets it right is it lol!

17 Oct, 2017

 

lol Jen I would tell him he made the better choice he ll buy more then . Then uyou can say as he has picked more you can now catch up with your choices.?

17 Oct, 2017

 

Hey, that's not a bad idea!

17 Oct, 2017

 

? thank you Waddy if you dont praise a man when he has cleaned you windows even if he did a bad job he will never offer to do things again as my sister learned then now moans he wont do any thing for her I told her so but she did nt listen.

17 Oct, 2017

 

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