Anyone know of this variety of azaleas? Its the hardy type in a 10" container facing southwest. I try to keep most of it in the shade of a yew shrub. It gave me new growth this summer and was wondering if I would get any blook this fall. If not, how should I treat it? Fertilize, bring indoors for the winter?
"Coral Bells" is a Kurume evergreen dwarf azalea, one of the first varieties ever introduced from Japan to the United States.
Most of this was already answered for you the first time you asked -- if you check your original query you'll see good stuff on fertilizing from Stephen. Essentially you shouldn't fertilize until late winter or early spring, then optionally a second time after it stops blooming, probably at the end of April. It should be an low-nitrogen fertilizer that will say on the box that it is acidic for evergreens or for rhododendrons & camellias.
Also as already answered, it blooms once a year, in spring. Long bloom times & rebloom is NOT one the bonuses of azaleas & rhodies.
A ten inch pot is too small for an azalea. It will never be very tall (takes years & years to reach two feet of hieght), but can spread rather more swiftly to three or four feet wide. It would require at minimum a two-foot-wide shallow pot, but would do best if you could put it in the ground.
-paghat the ratgirl
Most of this was already answered for you the first time you asked -- if you check your original query you'll see good stuff on fertilizing from Stephen. Essentially you shouldn't fertilize until late winter or early spring, then optionally a second time after it stops blooming, probably at the end of April. It should be an low-nitrogen fertilizer that will say on the box that it is acidic for evergreens or for rhododendrons & camellias.
True, but if you recall in my first post, I did not know the name of the plant, so that is why I entered in the subject title as it is, hopeing someone like yourself, would be more enlighten of what plant we were actually talking about.
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