Forsoothe's 2020-25 Five Year Azalea Contest race to the bottom...

[Deep Sea Diver]

I hate to scare all you guys, but second flush buds are building for next spring, and I think I owe everybody a fair warning...
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Jeez! I guess I'll just go burn my azalea..... or not...!
Cheers
DSD sends

 

[Pitoon]

Spring is here and your azalea could be blooming (depending on your location) or starting to leaf out with this season’s flush……it’s time for updates!

I would also like to add at this time we have 3 prizes to award. Many thanks to @Forsoothe! and @Deep Sea Diver for donating. I am also donating a prize as well.

If you are no longer interested in continuing in the Azalea Contest, please let me know so we can close your thread, thanks.

 

[Forsoothe!]

I won't pull these out of their mulched beds until ~21st or so. We almost always have spring repossessed by Mother Nature just when we think we have it in the bag.

 

[Pitoon]

I won't pull these out of their mulched beds until ~21st or so. We almost always have spring repossessed by Mother Nature just when we think we have it in the bag.

Yup, Mother Nature threw us a curve ball today and dropped the temps 20 degrees in just 12 hours.

 

[Forsoothe!]

So guys, if you weren't properly scared by last year's warning shots over your bow, here's another round...

 

[Pitoon]

So guys, if you weren't properly scared by last year's warning shots over your bow, here's another round...
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That's a lot of buds there! It's going to look really nice once they fully open.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Thank you, and I will post same.

 

[HorseloverFat]

So guys, if you weren't properly scared by last year's warning shots over your bow, here's another round...
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That thing OOZES health..

Nice!

 

[Pitoon]

I'm still going to win.......

 

[HorseloverFat]

I'm still going to win.......

....there’s an Azalea cultivar list in your signature.



Just sayin’

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Nice azalea!

Love to see those big beautiful soft red burgeoning red buds set against the variegated leaves which I imagine are rustling gently in those fresh Michigan spring winds...

cheers
DSD sends

 

[Forsoothe!]

There's gonna be a contest!

There is some foliage buried under there.

 

[Pitoon]

There's gonna be a contest!
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There is some foliage buried under there.

Wow! Very nice.....now I have to let mine set buds so I can show off next year!

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

…and I have to keep the darn rabbits away from mine. I better look for some good hasenpfeffer recipes this fall!

Cheers
DSD sends

 

[Forsoothe!]

Forsoothe! 4, Rabbits 0.

 

[Pitoon]

Forsoothe! 4, Rabbits 0.

Rabbit is some good eating!

 

[Forsoothe!]

My wife refuses to clean them, and I don't trust myself with a rabbit in one hand and a knife in the other. They are technically game animals and out of season now, so if I appeared to enjoy trapping them some do-gooder might call the Game Warden. The garden loves them, -about one foot deep. Revenge of the Lilies.

 

[HorseloverFat]

My wife refuses to clean them, and I don't trust myself with a rabbit in one hand and a knife in the other. They are technically game animals and out of season now, so if I appeared to enjoy trapping them some do-gooder might call the Game Warden. The garden loves them, -about one foot deep. Revenge of the Lilies.

Rabbits are good eating...

We continued to raise meat/hide rabbits after we moved into town...

The thumps (Before the ‘bleeding out) scared the city-folk.

...rabbits are assholes.

 

[Forsoothe!]

So, the bloom is off the Grand Champion, but onward and upward by stealimg the lady's babies..

Looks like crap, but now the foliage has lots of time to put on a new bonnet.

 

[Forsoothe!]

End of 2nd summer, lots of tight foliage...