Most people are drawn to the brilliant rose and the delicate pink of the azalea family, but I really adore the white blossoms as much as the pink and rose. There is so much shading and subtle colouring in the white of the flowers.
This little darling seems to have had a pink gene in the family tree that has all of a sudden shown itself this year! I imagine the conversation going something like this, if the flowers could talk to each other....
"Surprise!" says the mommy azalea. "We seem to have a bit of colour in this one!"
The daddy azalea, saying nothing, looks shocked!
Here is a perfect blossom, white as snow and dotted in the throat of the flower with slightly muted ivory tones that have a touch of yellow...
Check out the bee entering the picture on the right lower corner...energy in motion! Try taking a photo of a bee when he's busy gathering pollen for his queen!
Take a nostalgic a look back with me at some of my favorite pink azaleas from this spring in Savannah...
Azalea: Definition (n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; also called false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.
Comments (5)
Beautiful!
Posted by candi | March 17, 2009 1:59 PM
Posted on March 17, 2009 13:59
Hi, Candi!
Thanks, I love them as much as any flower...something ethereal about the white ones...fragile, delicate.
Posted by Brenda | March 18, 2009 12:23 PM
Posted on March 18, 2009 12:23
The azeleas look stunning - just what you needed to help banish that Canadian winter!
Posted by Jerry | March 20, 2009 9:42 AM
Posted on March 20, 2009 09:42
Jerry,
You are so right! It was the perfect antidote for the heaps and heaps of s-n-o-w we have here this winter!
Thanks for posting!
Posted by Brenda | March 21, 2009 12:56 PM
Posted on March 21, 2009 12:56
I think I like the white ones even better than the pink ones.
Posted by girasoli | March 28, 2009 8:03 PM
Posted on March 28, 2009 20:03