Azaleas are often low maintenance yet offer striking spring blooms for the backyard, which is in part what makes them so popular. Once they are established azaleas do not need much aftercare. They ...

From the Amen Corner of Augusta National to Mobile's Azalea Trail, Southerners can't get enough of azaleas. The candy-colored blooms profusely dot the landscape each spring on well-fertilized shrubs.

Azalea advice; whenever jerry dug up a bush to add to their yard's collection, he was careful to use the spade to cut widely around the roots. "Don't be shy about how big a root ball you want," he ...

I f you haven't fertilized your azaleas yet, now is the time. The most important factor in fertilizing azaleas is to use small amounts per application. Use any of the commercial granular ...

A: The hesitation in your gut was right! Nope. No pruning and no fertilizing these plants this time of year, and here’s why. Both pruning and fertilizing signal a plant to put on new growth. This late ...

April is the best time to fertilize azaleas. (CHRIS GRANGER) QUESTION: What is the best time to fertilize azaleas? I pruned them about a month ago. -- Tony Garner ANSWER: Azalea bushes are fertilized ...

Q. I know to fertilize my azaleas once a month for about three months after they finish blooming; the question is what kind of fertilizer? At the nursery there were three different products labeled ...

It might seem like anything you do might impact the flowers, but the fertilizer you apply now has to be absorbed by the roots and drawn up the stems. That takes time, and by the time it is absorbed ...

A: You can apply a specially formulated azalea fertilizer after spring blooms. Or you can use this organic schedule from Bayou Bend garden curator Bart Brector: Sprinkle 2-3 cups of alfalfa pellets ...

Playing golf in February hardly seems unusual here in the semi-tropics, but it's unheard of in places like Chicago. Except for this year, of course. Earlier this week, high temperatures there flirted ...