Cason Callaway has opened a nursery and he is specializing in native azaleas off some of the acreage there. Cason is not associated with Callaway Gardens but...
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Jan 1, 2004 1:39 pm
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thanks but do you know how to get in touch with him? ... From: Booper5@... To: azaleas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:39 AM Subject:...
JOT
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Jan 1, 2004 2:03 pm
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At 9:03 AM -0500 on 1/1/04, JOT wrote ... This nursery may be a cooperative venture with Ernest Koone. You can reach Ernest via <ekooneiii@...> to ask...
I only hope someone has marked and protected plant or less likely "plants" so that Galle's Choice can be propagated. Too many great cultivars have been lost ...
I have one plant of 'Galle's Choice Cream' . I can't reminder who gave me the plant but seems like they had numerous rooted plants of it. Maybe I'll remember...
correction to my email---the azalea I have is labeled 'Galle's Choice' not Galle's Choice Cream'. Buddy Lee <robert03asa@...> wrote: I have one plant of...
Compare your labelled Galle's Choice plant with the descriptions of it and Choice Cream in Galle's book. It may the only copy. I think there are two evergreen...
pay dirt! found galle's choice! it's alive and well, thanks to, ernest koone,who grows it as well as over 150 native azalea species,varieties,cultivars and...
JOT
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Jan 5, 2004 1:39 pm
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Contacting Ernest Koone was worthwhile. He has access to Galle's Choice and has propagated it in the past. He and Clarence Towe has discussed putting it in ...
I wish that more folks would try their hand at sticking dormant woody cuttings which can be done easily at this time of year outside where I live in the middle...
I am one of few, if any, that use it instead of rooting hormone. On a normal day, not too dry, not too wet I go to a native azalea or ericaceous relative ...
I am looking for any or all of the following azaleas: Buttons and Bows, Buzzard, Crimson Tide, Gibraltar, Mount St. Helens', and Pink Beauty. I would also like...
Laura Wetzel
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Jan 8, 2004 5:07 pm
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We entered the 21st century this Christmas by buying a DVD player. One of the features that convinced me to do it, which I read in Consumer Reports and on the...
These cultivars are all pretty common. Just use www.google.com and type in the exact name of the cultivar in quotes if more than one word, then a space with...
Laura, I noticed some of the azalea cultivars you listed are Girard Hybrids. Follow the link I put below for the Girard Webpage and a list of plants they ship....
Joe Schild
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Jan 9, 2004 1:43 pm
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[if you reply, please cc <organicecho@...> who is not a member of the group]...
Hi Susan, The problem you describe sounds quite a bit like Azalea Lace Bug. These are tiny fly like insects about 1/8 inch long that suck the green ...
Thank you for the info! I will follow up! Laura Wetzel...
Laura Wetzel
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Jan 11, 2004 8:03 pm
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Thanks for the info re. deciduous azaleas! Laura Wetzel...
Laura Wetzel
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Jan 11, 2004 8:05 pm
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Now that I am back in circulation, I think, and thanks to you Bob Stelloh, I have question that may have been explored long ago. What is the general opinion...
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Jan 15, 2004 2:29 am
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for what it's worth. my mama sure believed in it but she called it" leaf mold"! many times she hauled me off in the car. with a wash tub and shovel in the...
JOT
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Jan 15, 2004 3:51 pm
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Is there a consensus recommendation for preventing azalea petal blight? I hear that Bayleton is no longer available. I called the MD Extension Service and...
Micorrhizae: Nice stuff if you can get it and it never (probably) hurts to put a bit of old Azalea soil into a new whole. BUT micorrhizae are not needed or...
E. WHITE SMITH
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Jan 15, 2004 7:51 pm
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I live in the midlands of South Carolin and grow my native azaleas pretty much as nature would have it, preferring to plant in old pine stump holes that I have...
Hi, Two quotes on this subject perked up my antennae: E. White Smith said: "If you fertilize you do not need them anyway. " Does this mean that mychorrhizae...
The description of dying plants matches that of those dying of root rot. This is a fungus that lives in very wet soil without enough tiny air spaces. Are the...
I've accumulated a good-sized file of findings and observations regarding local native mycorrhizae. What I glean from it is that these soil bacteria form and ...