I live in zone 4, Upstate NY, and it gets quite cold here in the winters (-20 degrees). What should I do for my azaleas? I inherited a large rhododendron...
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Nicholas Yarmoshuk
nyarmosh63
Oct 2, 2009 5:12 pm
Ms Christian Where in Upstate New York do you live? I know that there is a large planting of azaleas near Burlington Vermont. The planting is so large that it...
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Tom Schuetz
mulchall
Oct 2, 2009 6:28 pm
Cheryl, please clarify: did you plant the azaleas or are they existing plantings? Do you know whether they are evergreen or deciduous? Tom Schuetz ...
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Jim Willhite
jwillhite23
Oct 3, 2009 7:30 pm
Anybody grow this azalea? I got a cutting, it says "fragrant." Wonder if it has mucronatum in it? Jim Willhite West Chester, PA...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
Oct 3, 2009 7:39 pm
I have an old plant of Easley Sky Blue from Transplant Nursery, who introduced it. The fragrance must be mild, as I have never noticed it. To me the plant...
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Jim Willhite
jwillhite23
Oct 3, 2009 7:50 pm
Is it blue or lavender Mike? Assume its lavender. I asked about mucronatum because there is a very nice lavender muc. hybrid called 'Winterthur' that does in...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
Oct 3, 2009 8:48 pm
Just in the past two weeks my Yahoo mail has been acting up. I use the paid MailPlus service and had the Classic view, not the New view. The line changed...
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Diann Woodall
diannwoodall@...
Oct 3, 2009 11:24 pm
I just bought some Azalea's on sale at a nursery. The tag says "Azalea X Joga" which I think I'm understanding to be Joga' ('Johga', 'Vogah') Satsuki Can you...
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Joe Schild
joeschild
Oct 5, 2009 7:16 pm
Mike, I hope this e-mail gets through. I have been having some real problems with Yahoo and my IPS since they changed over from Google to Yahoo home page and...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
Oct 5, 2009 10:39 pm
Joe, I received your email message. What specific problems have you been having with your email? My primary problem is that I can no longer search my saved...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
Oct 5, 2009 11:33 pm
I grow Joga in the midlands of South Carolina. It is a dense, compact medium height evergreen plant (Satsuki type) with good foliage (seldom damaged by lace...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
Oct 5, 2009 11:55 pm
I would call it a nice soft lavendar, very similar to my Poukahense Compacta. I photographed the flowers in 2007 and while recording fall colors of...
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Barry Sperling
bsperlinus
Oct 6, 2009 1:15 am
Just a small comment: I have a small plant, though it's growing well, and all of the flowers are of the SAME type: white with a pink blotch. Similar to...
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Maarten van der Giessen
austrinum
Oct 6, 2009 1:12 pm
I grow 'Johga' in Mobile, Alabama. It's one of my favoite Satsuki - low, compact, insect and disease resistant with beautiful white flowers accented by the...
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Earl Sommerville
earl_sommerv...
Oct 6, 2009 2:23 pm
Hello All, I have an Joga in my garden and it has been here for a lot of years; it has the pink blotch but no other markings. I have attach a photo. Earl...
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Earl Sommerville
earl_sommerv...
Oct 6, 2009 2:43 pm
Hello All, I don`t think the first photo came though very well so let me try again. The Joga that I have grown for a number of years has a pink blotch but no...
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Earl Sommerville
earl_sommerv...
Oct 6, 2009 7:57 pm
Diann, Mike and Maarten, This the last try, I change over to the Vista System and it is something that I should not have done. I hope this photo come through...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
Oct 7, 2009 2:35 am
My two most lacebug-resistent evergreen azaleas seem to be Joga and Chinzan. In a year when even some of my deciduous azaleas are stricken with lace bugs,...
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diane kehoe
dianekehoe
Oct 7, 2009 4:47 am
Hi Maarten, I've also wondered why the American Rhododendron Society or the Azalea Society do not distribute the 'fat little Satsuki book'. A friend who is a ...
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LMF0352@...
Oct 8, 2009 1:11 am
This is from the ASK US page, so please send me a CC. I have discovered aphids on two of my azaleas. I sprayed the plant with a mild soapy water but the...
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Joe Schild
azaleajoe@...
Oct 8, 2009 1:24 am
Well, folks, here is another weird thing happening when I try to open an attached pic in the azalea groups list. I end up with an error message as shown at the...
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Tom Schuetz
mulchall
Oct 8, 2009 1:39 am
So who would want to copyright an unknown error? Tom Schuetz schuetz101@... Mechanicsburg, PA USDA Zone 6a ... From: Joe Schild To:...
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David Banks
dfbanks2
Oct 8, 2009 1:49 am
Well, Microsoft does rather well selling collections of them and labeling them as new versions of their software.... Dave Banks ... Well, Microsoft does rather...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
Oct 8, 2009 3:14 am
I grow a prostrate azalea named Rhododendron indicum which is a forefather of the large southern Indicas, I think it is a form distributed by the...
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Donald Hyatt
dhyattrhodo
Oct 8, 2009 3:53 am
Hi Mike, There has been quite a bit of confusion about evergreen azalea species over the years. That was one of the themes in the talk that I gave at the ASA...
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Jim Willhite
jwillhite23
Oct 8, 2009 11:36 am
I have taken to saving Don's emails to the group because they are so informative. Sorry I missed Don's talk at the Convention. What are the hardiest of these...
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Vivian Abney
efnur...
Oct 8, 2009 11:57 am
Jim, I grow 'George Tabor' here in East Tennessee with no problems. I think your area is similar to mine temperature-wise. Vivian Abney ... From: Jim Willhite...
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Tom Schuetz
mulchall
Oct 8, 2009 9:16 pm
Jim, my understanding is that the so called southern indicas were bred by the Dutch as greenhouse forcing plants, for which they are well suited. They are...
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George Klump
mixturev@...
Oct 8, 2009 10:50 pm
8 October 2009 Don, Several years ago I had occasion to do an article on Nuccio's Nurseries for the ARS Journal. In the course of that research, I also had a ...
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Joe Schild
azaleajoe@...
Oct 8, 2009 11:14 pm
Hey David and Tom, The copyright thing is not the problem. The problem is that I can not open a thumbnail pic contained as an attachment to our Azaleas Groups...
