deciduous azalea

I picked up this azalea at a discount in 2022, moved to training pot (first pic) in May of that year. I let it grow pretty much freely the first year and the trunk base / root flair / taper progressed nicely (second pic from July 2022). Last year I started the clip-and-grow process and I like...

So my wife bought this ‘Exbury’ azalea last spring and then it just sat in the front yard in its nursery pot, up against the fence, and never got planted. Somewhere along the line the plastic nursery pot split open, exposing the root ball. I decided today to slip it into another pot for winter...

And maybe even decades earlier. There are a number of articles from that time on researchgate in which, often, dozens of vigorous enough, non albino seedlings were obtained. (like Kurume x Rhododendron flavum f. flavum, which worked rather well depending on the specific Kurume parent) Yet to...

Hello All, I’m new to the bonsai world and have decided to start my journey focusing in on a single type - Azaleas. I wanted to be able to tailor my supply purchases and reading to basics and a single application. Of course, I then decided to get both deciduous and evergreen varietals instead...

Hey all! First time contest for me and another entry for the great North American deciduous Azalea experiment. This is an azalea 'fireball'. An exbury hybrid I got from a nursery. Trying to sort out if I need to gradually reduce down or if I can hard chop. Thinking the base has good potential...