Calsaps Rhododendrons

 

While living in Wallingford Connecticut, I did a fair amount of gardening.  I largely stumbled onto a type of rhododendron called Calsaps at a local nursery.
   

 

 
I was told they could be a bit sensitive to grow in Connecticut, but I never had any trouble with them.  These photos are of the smallest plant in front of my house.  I had two others that were much larger in the back just inside the edge of the woods on my property.