Sacrificing a few of its spring blooms early, this downtown Albany azalea is repeating its incongruous performance at the wrong time of the year. Not that a spring flower isn’t exuberantly appreciated and welcomed right about now, but with the cost of blooms next spring I’m not sure we really want it. It’s especially ominous when lilacs get in on the early show – a lilac most certainly shouldn’t be blowing in the fall, but we’ve seen it happen. Once COVID hit it seems all bets were off and nothing was sacred or secure anymore. That was almost seven years ago and some of us are still reeling.
As for this brave if misguided azalea, she’s a pretty one, even if I’m doubtful of her matching prowess next to the hues of the fall foliage. The line is ‘Red, gold and green‘ not ‘Red, magenta and green.’
