Spring is coming soon.....

Spring is coming and we must also look forward to the coming season. Young shoots, flowers and of course various work ahead of us. Let's enjoy...
beautiful azalea.....and I, Pot Brian Albright


Azalea 2010


after designed 24.May 2008


before 24.May 2008

Wundebar!!!

Nice azalea, Jupp!
Good taper of the trunk!
May I ask how long have you kept those long shoots growing for the apparent reason of fattening the branches?
Thank you.

Hi Alexandra, Thanx
Just as in Figure 4, I bought the azalea and designed on the same Day.

Hi Jupp,

really sweet

Greetings
FranzH

Hi Jupp. Lovely result.

I get the impression that this azalea has had a hard prune back at some point before you got it. To perhaps answer Alexandra's question, I might be wrong but I think that the thickness of those branches is not because of "sacrifice" long shoots but may be more to do with it having been a much bushier tree that has been taken back a fair bit but not right into the trunk. The reason I am saying this is because I have in the past two years been doing that exercise with my own azalea. I won't hijack your thread with pictures of it as I intend to put up a thread about it later this summer. Just my take on it and as I say it might be completely off target.

But the main thing is, you have achieved a splendid result with your tree.

Great work Jupp, I really like it.

Mike

Thanks for comments.
The azalea from Japan in 2007 import.

The azaleas have bloomed beautifully. Now they are cut and remove the seed heads.





after the cut