... Pretty much everything goes into the cutting box. I don't need a lot of success to be happy. Evergreen azaleas are easiest. I have had the whole cutting...
Bob: You might be interested in reading an article that appeared in the Journal of the American Rhododendron Society (JARS) Vol. 48 No.1 Winter 1994 "The...
The circumstances around your needs are specific. I doubt anybody in the group will come back with an equally specific answer like you should use 45% shade...
I agree that we need something definitive on the topic of growing indoor potted azaleas, something I would never try, since we get so many inquiries on this ...
"large, orderly shade bed well away from the house at the old dog pen" Sounds ripe for Dyemakers' Puffballs,* Rhizipogon, Pyrola, Chimaphila, Gaultheria,...
I apologize for over posting, I was desperate. I will try some of your suggestions and hope I havn't killed the azalea. (my mother spent $100 bucks to ship it...
Bob, you have come upon a wonderful idea for recyling aquariums as devices for plant propagation and as a hospital to save ailing plants. When I first started...
Actually no fungus problems at all. When bird dogs were apen, I regularly shoveled out "the stuff" and rinsed off the sloped concrete pad with a power spray ...
The *true* fungi Pisolithus and Rhizopogon are not problems. They are necessary for Wintergreens and Arbutus. Pisolithus will produce a 'fruiting body' in...
To be exact I was the "discoverer" and co-author in Novon in September 1999 (with botanist Kathleen Kron) of the species Rhododendron eastmanii, which is now ...
Hello all Azalea Friends; Does anyone know if ' Alabama Fountain' ever went into propagation and is available in the Nursery trade down south?? It is/was...
At 7:41 PM -0500 on 1/31/07, Joe Schild wrote Bob & All, We seem to receive a large volume of queries about potted azaleas every year about this time of the...
Tad, Dr. John Thornton mentions that it is being propagated in the following URL: www.azaleachapter.com/r_minus.htm I suspect that he will know if it is...
I found the message below with the article by an extension agent on caring for "gift" azaleas. The link is given and I pasted the material in the message. You...
I've just put a cheat sheet on the web to help identify North American native azaleas. It is adapted from Dr. Kathleen Kron's work in classifying all the...
The information by Dr Kathleen Keon`s work on native azaleas is a very good, but were you have up to eight species growing to gather with a lot of crossing and...
Happy Pork Sausage Day! Winter just started in Cincinnati. It has been in the fifties and wet day and night until two weeks ago. We have had only one real...
... My earlier post on "Hypothetical Weather" talked about a deep freeze about 2 weeks from then. While forecasting is an art and not a science, it looks like...
Rounded Concave Cutters can also be obtained from Dallas Bonsai Garden. I recommend their BM60-7 3/4" tool for $49.95. This is one of the tools that I use on...
... Hi Bob, The NativeAzaleaCheatSheet is a great tool. The two species that are hardest to key apart are Viscosum and Arborescens. They only differ in the...
Steve In general, here in New England, R arborescens blooms before R. viscosum. This may have to do with the later blooming arborscens being less hardy than ...
Joe, You completely missed the point! A concave cutter that you recommend will gouge out the wood. Azaleas form only a shallow callus layer that will not fill...
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Hi, Does anyone know where/when this azalea was discovered ? I have 2 seedlings that I crossed. Would the progeny still be called R.xfurbishii even though it...
Steve, Thanks for looking so closely. There are many other characters to help distinguish the species; I felt these were the most generally useful that would...
Joe; R.Furbishii dates from 1942, when Lemmon and McKay described it as a new speciescand named it A.furbishii (Bartonia 21: 5-6. 1940-41 ) for Robert...
I think many folks in horticulture find the global warming proponents' arguments persuasive & are rather interested in the subject. Below are a series of...
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