Have an old PJM ‘Olga Mezitt’. It’s 6’ tall and wide. Covered in bright pink clumps of flowers, covers the shrub. The plant cover...Read Mores much of our first story window and when in bloom, you just see a cloud of pink flowers outside the window. Bumble bees go crazzzy for the blooms. The color is much more pleasing the original PJM which has a muted lavender color. This one is bright fuchsia pink. Ubiquitous in New England but an attractive and easy to grow rhododendron.
Traverse City, MI (Zone 5a) | February 2011 | positive
This is a cultivar, relaitive of the P.J.M. rhododendron. The foliage is smaller with a lovely strong herbal smell. More cold hardy than ...Read Moreother rhodies, it does well with minimal care.
Different from the typical rhodedendron, it has small, thin leaves and many small flowers more typical of the 'azalea' look, though it is...Read More evergreen. Resembles Rhododendron carolinianum 'P.J. Mezitt' strongly, but with darker pink to lavender flowers.
Easy to grow compared to many of the family, it flowers fairly heavily and willingly even in shade, though it does get rather leggy with less sun.
Have an old PJM ‘Olga Mezitt’. It’s 6’ tall and wide. Covered in bright pink clumps of flowers, covers the shrub. The plant cover...Read More
This is a cultivar, relaitive of the P.J.M. rhododendron. The foliage is smaller with a lovely strong herbal smell. More cold hardy than ...Read More
Different from the typical rhodedendron, it has small, thin leaves and many small flowers more typical of the 'azalea' look, though it is...Read More