Deciduous Azalea Techniques

[Bonsaipadawan]

I see I was not properly addressing the debate you had last year. If it didn’t experience as much lead loss as your satsuki then it sounds like an evergreen to me but obviously that’s been surprisingly hard to pin down in your case. I say that knowing with the weird weather my Northern Lights deciduous azalea only recently finally dropped all its leaves.

The weather has been pretty strange and I am still pretty new to all of this. Here in nyc we had a very mild winter, we didn't have any snowfall so far. We did have a week that was pretty cold for us going into single digits as well as most of the winter being well below 50 and 40 degrees. Either way I do see that almost all of my other azaleas lost their foliage but all my others are either satsuki or satsuki hybrids. Some completely lost their foliage others mostly and one pretty much stayed the same.
Thanks for your second response. Yeah there was some debate about the plant but was mostly me being uncertain and others reminding me I am a noob and they believed the plant to be decideous. The last commenter mentioned nature has its way of eventually sorting this kind of issue out but either way they all had good reasons to believe it was evergreen but I figured I'd give an update and ask for some further tips on what more experienced people see and would try to improve this plants form

 

[Underdog]

girards crimson but a member here assured me they do not believe it is

I have a couple of those and this looks like the flower. Not a Deciduous. Mine loose most leaves except for around the flower buds. The remaining leaves turn red while cold. Start a thread on it and there are some great Azalea experts here who will happily help w/out muddying up this thread.

This Gibraltar is swelling the huge flower buds as well as the Veg buds weeks too early.

 

[Japonicus]

I remember the seller told me it's girards crimson but a member here assured me they do not believe it is

Girards Hot Shot azalea

This is my 1st go at a flowering shrub, other than a crabapple tree, so no experience in bonsai with this. Pics taken May 1st 2021

www.bonsainut.com

This is a Girards Hot Shot ever green, if that helps. A little further down the page I cut back
so you can get a view of the trunk characteristics as well.
Sorry I cannot identify yours.

 

[Bonsaipadawan]

Hey everybody I have some more pictures of my mystery cultivar not sure what it is but it's flowers are starting to open up and look different than last year. They didn't fully open last year. I hope that these photos can maybe clear up some of the issues around id I have with this plant the seller told me girards crimson. I hope not to bother or muddy the thread here just figured I'd update since it could potentially belong here

 

[Underdog]

As I said before, it looks just like my Girards Crimson and is not deciduous. Why don't you believe the seller and the rest of us again/still?

I hope not to bother or muddy the thread

too late LOL Start a thread on it.

 

[Bonsaipadawan]

As I said before, it looks just like my Girards Crimson and is not deciduous. Why don't you believe the seller and the rest of us again/still?

too late LOL Start a thread on it.

I am sorry I didn't recall you stating that it looks just like your girards crimson for some reason I recalled the opposite.

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

I am sorry I didn't recall you stating that it looks just like your girards crimson for some reason I recalled the opposite.

Yeah at this point you should really start a separate thread on it just because this is supposed to be about figuring out deciduous azalea. I’d look up Girards crimson in a search here first though and see what’s already been discussed about it. Or just Girard azalea.

 

[Underdog]

My Gibraltar is about to bloom.
Here are more pics of Girard crimson

 

[Bonsaipadawan]

My Gibraltar is about to bloom.View attachment 486552
Here are more pics of Girard crimson

Your garden looks gorgeous!

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

Your garden looks gorgeous!

I’m always so jealous of some of the gardens on here. Me over here with my little concrete patio facing NW. look up Mach5’s garden if you haven’t seen that. Thing is gorgeous.

 

[Bonsaipadawan]

I’m always so jealous of some of the gardens on here. Me over here with my little concrete patio facing NW. look up Mach5’s garden if you haven’t seen that. Thing is gorgeous.

I can totally relate I am in a small concrete square in brooklyn but I am glad I have at least that!

 

[Glaucus]

And the very nice pond together with the nice ripples on the surface are perfectly in focus.
(sorry for the snarky comment, just went through my own out of focus images)

 

[calvin]

I just picked up this Northern Hi Lights a couple of weeks ago. Couldn’t help it after seeing the base LOL

I’m hoping to give it a chop after the flowers finally come out.

 

[Underdog]

And the very nice pond together with the nice ripples on the surface are perfectly in focus.
(sorry for the snarky comment, just went through my own out of focus images)

Oh that was a bad one. Just trying to get @Leo in N E Illinois thread back on track

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

I just picked up this Northern Hi Lights a couple of weeks ago. Couldn’t help it after seeing the base LOL

I’m hoping to give it a chop after the flowers finally come out.

These things seem to develop really nice bases it seems - I have a thread on one as well that’s quite chunky.

 

[Brim Gribley]

Great thread! I dug this one up last year, was really hoping it made it through. I put it in a diy cold frame( advice from the Nut) and it looks like it’s doing ok.

 

[Brim Gribley]

Gonna wait to a bit before styling, thinking windswept. Would definitely appreciate suggestions.

 

[Brim Gribley]

A few pictures of the root system last year

 

[Brim Gribley]

All this information and pics are truly inspiring

 

[Underdog]

Brim, I don't think that's deciduous Azalea either. Did it keep any leaves overwinter?