| Title: | ** Gardening ** |
| Notice: | Welcome to Gardening |
| Moderator: | SHULA::CONCORDIA |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2956 |
| Total number of notes: | 27284 |
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 457.1 | My best guess: it should recover. | SQM::AITEL | Helllllllp Mr. Wizard! | Wed May 27 1987 13:13 | 22 |
| 457.2 | just a temporary setback... | CADVAX::LEMAIRE | Wed May 27 1987 13:28 | 12 | |
| 457.3 | ex | JAWS::LEVITT | Wed May 27 1987 15:01 | 11 | |
| 457.4 | Toxic Leaves | CSTVAX::REILLY | Mon Jun 08 1987 11:39 | 9 | |
| 457.5 | The dog did it. | OWL::LANGILL | A Transitory Hallucination | Tue Jun 09 1987 17:50 | 6 |
| 457.6 | recovering Rhody | VAXINE::RIDGE | Tue Jun 23 1987 13:24 | 15 | |
| 457.7 | HELP -- RHODYS IN NEED | CIVIC::WINBERG | Tue Aug 11 1987 17:59 | 18 | |
| 457.8 | SMARTT::JENNISON | And baby makes five | Wed Apr 16 1997 11:40 | 23 | |
This looks like as good a place as any for my question.
I've got one leafless purple gem dwarf rhody, and
two leafless azaleas.
The rhody lost it's leaves last summer. I don't know what
got to it, but when I checked the branches this week, they
seem to still have some "green" in them.
The azaleas seemed ok last summer, but lost their leaves
sometime in the fall/winter and they haven't come back.
The rhody and azaleas are in different beds, and I have
other azaleas next to the leafless ones that are doing fine.
My question is whether I should just assume they are lost,
dig up, and plant something else, or if there is any
hope of getting them to come back (by pruning, feeding, or
other means).
Karen
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| 457.9 | CSC32::M_EVANS | be the village | Wed Apr 16 1997 14:41 | 8 | |
don't feed a stressed plant. It only increases the stress. I am one
of the "If there is any green or bendability there is hope" people. I
would give the rhody and the azaleas at least another month and longer
if the branches are flexible to leaf out. some plants are slower than
others for everything from bug damage, to winter water issues (big one
in CO) to how much snow was piled on them during a hard freeze.
meg
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| 457.10 | What kind of azalea? | HOTLNE::CORMIER | Thu Apr 17 1997 10:19 | 10 | |
Karen,
Is the azalea (is that spelling even close?) a deciduous variety? Does
it usually have leaves this time of year? My Mom has a beautiful one
that is all bare sticks, then it blooms, then the leaves come out, then
they fall off and it goes back to sticks. It's supposed to work that
way. Every spring we are convinced it's dead, but it blossoms into
lovely large apricot flowers shortly after we think it's hopeless.
If you scratch a branch and it's still green, then just give them some
time. It's still a bit cool for some plants to leaf out yet.
Sarah
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| 457.11 | SMARTT::JENNISON | And baby makes five | Thu Apr 17 1997 13:44 | 12 | |
My other azaleas in the same bed have leaves and buds.
The two damaged ones have neither.
The branches still have "bend" to them.
I guess I'll wait until after the flowering season to
decide what to do with it.
Karen
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