Any suggestions on how to grow an azaela bush? i've had no luck with them.?
Question:ilove them, but when i buy one, it always dies. any special care needed?
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Azaela need slightly acid soil to thrive, which means keep them away from concrete block walls. Lime can leach into the soil and turn the soil alkaline. Also, when planted near a foundation the soil never freezes and warms up too soon in the spring and can be way too hot in the summer.
They do not like full sun as it burns them, and they hate being too wet after springtime. In Pennsylvania and West Virginia they grow wild on wooded hill sides, in very gravely soil. Under these wild conditions they put on a great show and no one is there to care for them!
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They also need a cold spell to set them into dormancy, if the winter is too mild they don't flower the next year.
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I Plant them in a large hole surrounded by sand and peat moss and I add a little Azaela food in the spring as they start to open their flowers. I plant them on the north side of the house and on the south side near some white pine trees. I have two white ones under a big leaf maple where nothing else grows but they do fine there as well.
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I mulch with pine needles and wood chips, but I never use
compost or grass clippings.
They need to have indirect sun and alot of water when it hot, they also have a plant food made by bayer i believe that is especially made for azaela bushes. Also you can just go talk to someone at your local nursery, i'm they would help.
When you plant them, put a fish under them. If you can't find a fish anywhere, um.. use ironite.
i think azalea bushes like acidic soil and fertilizer. you should look it up on the Internet and it will tell you everything you need to know to grow the prettiest one on the block.
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