Well... the Fall rains have arrived. We had, at our home, about 1.2 inches total, until Friday, for the month. Normal is about 1.5 inches. Then the rain...
... Hi Lorrie, Unfortunately rhododendrons and azaleas are toxic and should not be included in your salad or stew. Eating any part of the plant can cause...
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bestliners@...
Sep 30, 2007 5:33 pm
Missouri? Lowe's? Really? Boy, I'd love to know that story. Completely aside from the question you're asking, our nursery introduced Amelia Rose four or...
Hi Lorene, There are books available that report all of the extremely common indoor and outdoor plants that are poisonous. If you take a few minutes with your...
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Lorene Brown
brownlb@...
Sep 29, 2007 2:05 pm
Hi, I just have a quick question about azaleas. We have a rental house with beautiful azaleas, and our renters who have a 2 year old, told us that azaleas are...
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Glasgowbrumley@...
Sep 29, 2007 2:05 pm
I have just purchased 9 Amelia Rose Azaleas from my local Lowe's Store. Unfortunately, the employee on duty did not know much about plants and couldn't help...
Mike, Consider making reciprocal crosses. (In Both Directions) My experience with R. periclymenoides is that this species has well entrenched genes and is...
Crossing the Early Arborescens with a good periclymenoides is a great idea, one I hadn't thought of. I will probably need to save pollen from the pinxter,...
Mike, Your pics of the early Arborescens are excellent and do show this species as a great foliage plant also. Please do try some crosses with the early...
Actually, the foliage cleaner and glossier than Kalmias I have seen, and I grow a goodly number. It is near to the sheen of a Cleyera japonica. It is also a...
Mike, Amazing! It looks Kalmia. Andy Andrew P. Whipple, PhD Professor of Biology Taylor University 236 W. Reade Avenue Upland, IN 46989 anwhipple@......
This has been a challenging year for the flora of my 7 acres woods and garden for the site-native wild plants, planted native species and planted non-native ...
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George Klump
mixturev@...
Sep 22, 2007 10:52 pm
Mike, Why would you want to cut the plants back by about 1/3, if the leaves are otherwise all right? Some azaleas do have leaves which just naturally turn a...
Shouldn't the plants be cut back by a third also? Mike Creel, SC...
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George Klump
mixturev@...
Sep 22, 2007 6:26 pm
Keith, From your description of your azaleas, it appears that the cambium is still okay. . .which means that the azaleas are still okay. You might try putting...
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kmbpete@...
Sep 22, 2007 4:09 pm
Hello. I live in Durham, NC, and we have been experiencing serious drought conditions for about 2 months. On top of the drought, we have had a very hot ...
Sorry, I don't know the breed of my azaleas that are being given away. Many are 5 feet tall, some taller. I never attempted to dig them out. ... From: Leslie...
The oak shade still allows good grass growth right and these plants won't cook right? You can probably plant into the soil if you backfill with good dirt...
Treva: What size were the egg-like objects? Are these azaleas that you recently planted from pots? If so, the green eggs could have been bits of time release...
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Leslie Bewley
fourwinds@...
Sep 19, 2007 2:44 am
[this is from the ASK US page, so please send me a CC] What breed of azalea would best fit the following need? Area: NE Texas, along the Red River - Bonham TX,...
Here are slides for 2 talks http://picasaweb.google.com/SallyDPerkins/GrowTryAndVisit picasaweb.google.com/SallyDPerkins/RhododendronSpeciesForBeginners John...
Azalea Giveaway Will give away up to 10 (more or less) azalea bushes that are as tall as a human. In exchange please bring CLEAN dirt and top soil to...
Do you like "normal" flowers or flowers with strap petals and would you prefer deciduous (wider bloom time better flowers) or evergreen. For the evergreen...
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George Klump
mixturev@...
Sep 18, 2007 4:39 am
17 September 2007 Melissa, For a straight red you might try 'Nuccio's Firecracker'. It is one of the very few reds which have no blue in it. In the Kurume...
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Melissa Miller Feinbaum
mmiller@...
Sep 18, 2007 3:23 am
[this is from the ASK US page, so please send me a CC] My name is Melissa and I live in Knoxville, TN. I believe we are in Zone 7. We have dry, hot summers...
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trevajois
trevajois@...
Sep 17, 2007 6:18 pm
Hello, I have 2 azaleas that were not doing well. I decided to move them yesterday to another part of my yard. The leaves on both are brown at the bottom and...
To see a preview of the new ARS Mass Chapter site go to http://arsmc.org/documents/gatewayentry.xml This works for the 4 major browsers IE 6+, Firefox 2+,...
right now and try and dig as much of the roots up as you can ... From: Nancy D'Acunto <nancydac711@...> ... I have 3 azalea bushes that are 30 to 40...
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Nancy D'Acunto
nancydac711@...
Sep 16, 2007 5:16 pm
I have 3 azalea bushes that are 30 to 40 years old that my husband gave to me when each of my children were born. I have move to a new house and want to take...
