Joe, While "Chemeleon" is perhaps quite descriptive, you will probably have trouble registering it since it approximates 'Chameleon', a Glenn Dale hybrid. Bill...
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Joe Schild
azaleajoe@...
May 18, 2004 9:30 pm
Well, the attached pic is of the same plant I sent a pic of yesterday. This bloom cluster is located under a limb and shaded, yealding the nice clear yellow...
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Mary & Bill McDavit
azaleasunset
May 18, 2004 5:18 pm
Joe, That is a stunning azalea cross. That one should carry your name. Bill McDavit - Sunset Lakes, NC - Zone 8 The attached photo is of a clone of a cross I...
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DELORIS SMITH
smit5857@...
May 18, 2004 4:24 pm
Congratulations to Mike Creel for discovering the New Azalea. Just read the article in Boc News. Well done! Deloris Smith Zone 7 ... From: "Mike Creel"...
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DELORIS SMITH
smit5857@...
May 18, 2004 4:10 pm
May I please get some of those too? Now that I have retired I have plenty of time to devote to azaleas. Thanks, Deloris Smith 7935 Bethel Road Gainesville, GA...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
May 18, 2004 3:37 pm
My most vigorous plants of eastmanii seem to be the seedlings from a pure stand or hand-crossed planted in a half-filled fast-draining media and pot where some...
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Yeatts, Steve
steve092
May 18, 2004 3:03 pm
Ray, Thanks for the heads up. Soil samples taken from soil around plants in Alabama and tested by the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Agency proved...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
May 18, 2004 2:55 pm
I do not think the book has been closed as to which evergreen and deciduous azaleas will form seed pods. Pods will form even on hose-in-hose and some double ...
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ray head
jrhead_1
May 18, 2004 2:50 pm
Steve, When I looked at eastmanii at Santee a few years ago I was puzzled at how acid loving plants were growing on top of the limestone. I took a soil sample ...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
May 18, 2004 2:40 pm
Your bed has probably now filled with tree roots which compete with the azaleas or the azaleas need radical pruning all the way back to the stump. I would ...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
May 18, 2004 2:30 pm
Your problem is one or more of the following: wrong variety of azalea for your area, insufficient annual pruning after bloom, too much shade at planting site,...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
May 18, 2004 2:23 pm
To address your problem I would recommend a much closer pruning (to encourage new growth all over) of the entire plant immediately following bloom, cleaning up...
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earlsommerville@...
earl_sommerv...
May 18, 2004 1:41 pm
Hi Sally The number # 218 is an o-p seedling taken from an Austrinum X ? that is why it is scented. If you would like to try some small plants for your cold ...
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Mike Creel
mikeacreel
May 18, 2004 1:30 pm
This is Mike Creel in South Carolina Zone 8a. I think that native azaleas would grow much better, and live longer, in our gardens if we pruned them to a...
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Yeatts, Steve
steve092
May 18, 2004 12:34 pm
Buddy, I have also found R.eastmanii from SC more difficult to grow than the Alabama plants. I would suspect that this may be the case because the Alabama...
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SPerkins
sjperk5
May 18, 2004 10:43 am
Hi all, I got back from the ARS convention in King of Prussia, PA to be greeted by an explosion of color in my elepidotes especially the yak-smir and early...
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Joe Schild
azaleajoe@...
May 18, 2004 4:44 am
Here is a pic of another clone of a cross made in 1986. This one has the parents, R. cumberlandense X R. arborescens, and is the only one in 220 seedlings that...
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tlarrywalker@...
May 18, 2004 4:02 am
Jim, i can't look at the 'Bruce Hancock' blossoms again---they are all gone. I did not make a photo, but I recall the blossoms were just like 'Nels Pete'...
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Will and Kate Ferrell
algernon_27265
May 18, 2004 3:23 am
Joe, that's gorgeous! You should be proud. Will Ferrell ... From: Joe Schild To: azaleaslist Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:45 PM Subject: [AZ] Schild Hybrid ...
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Buddy Lee
robert03asa
May 18, 2004 2:51 am
One of my highlights of this years convention tours was a stop at Marshy Point Nursery. Mr. Harry C. Weiskittel, owner, is an active azalea breeder and has...
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Buddy Lee
robert03asa
May 18, 2004 2:26 am
Joe, That is a beautiful hybrid. I am beginning to respect the genetic potential of R. arborescens more and more. Looking forward to a pic of the second...
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Buddy Lee
robert03asa
May 18, 2004 2:09 am
When I first saw these South Alabama plants in the mid 1980's, I had a difficult time placing them in a group. I first concluded that they were a hybrid swarm...
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Bob Stelloh
oakhillbob
May 18, 2004 1:52 am
[ please cc prb at col.haynsworth.com on any reply ]...
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Bob Stelloh
oakhillbob
May 18, 2004 1:49 am
[ please cc sharriman at hot.rr.com on any reply ]...
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Bob Stelloh
oakhillbob
May 18, 2004 1:46 am
[ please cc honeylocust99 at aol.com on any reply ]...
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Bob Stelloh
oakhillbob
May 18, 2004 1:38 am
[ please cc khaggard at nlamerica.com on any reply ]...
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DELORIS SMITH
smit5857@...
May 18, 2004 1:28 am
Help! A neighbor just brought me some azaleas (she pruned back) tangerine colored and says it is very old and very special and asked me to help her root them....
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Joe Schild
azaleajoe@...
May 18, 2004 12:46 am
The attached photo is of a clone of a cross I made in 1986. The parentage is R. arborescens X R. cumberlandense. The truss of flowers is just one of many on...
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JOT
JimPatsy@...
May 17, 2004 8:53 pm
Messageone thing you folks who are responding to bill millers quest is you fail to show the underside of the blossom. i too, thought i had the answer until i...
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Krabill, Daniel
dankrabill
May 17, 2004 1:43 pm
Bill, I saw an azalea that was spelled Pete on one of the tours at the ASA Convention this year, but I recall that it was supposed to be Pe'te, with an accent...
