West Pottsgrove, PA (Zone 6b) | May 2007 | neutral
Selected by Dr. John Creech, a director of the US National Arboretum to honor Benjamin Yoe Morrison, another director of the USNA, who wa...Read Mores also Chief of the Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction, editor of National Horticultural Magazine, and a prolific hybridizer of azalea and iris.
Ben Morrison hybidized 454 Azaleas at the USDA Plant Intoduction Station in Glenn Dale, Maryland. The Glenn Dale hybrids were an effort to combine the large and colorful southern Indicas with more northern hardy plants.
The 'Ben Morrison' Azalea is derived from those hybrids.
Selected by Dr. John Creech, a director of the US National Arboretum to honor Benjamin Yoe Morrison, another director of the USNA, who wa...Read More