Gumpo Azalea Gets its Spring Haircut

[Mellow Mullet]

I have been struggling to find the time to prune this Spring due to other projects so I have to jump on it when I get the opportunity. This is one of the first azaleas that I got, it came from a nursery and I think it was in a three gallon pot. It has came a long way since I got it. Gumpos are not easy to tame, they put out lots of long upright growth and are kinda brittle, but if you wire the branches right before they harden off they set quickly, sometimes in a month or so. They also grow fast, all of the foliage in the before picture grew in one season, I had cut it back to nothing last spring. What do you think?

John

 

[JoeR]

Awesome!

Gonna go back to a local nursery and pick one up myself. Just love the white flowers.

 

[sorce]

I really like it in that pot!

Nice growth!

Sorce

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Awesome!

Gonna go back to a local nursery and pick one up myself. Just love the white flowers.

Thanks, I like the white ones too, only it is so humid here in Mobile, I have to apply fungicide right before bud break or they will get petal blight. When I first got it, the folwers were all white, now I have some that are showing up with pinkish stripes and blotches, kinda cool.

John

 

[Mellow Mullet]

I really like it in that pot!

Nice growth!

Sorce

Thanks sorce. The Gumpos grow really well and take a lot of punishment when it comes to root work. The pot is by Byron Myrick, here does nice work and the pot is really solid.

John

 

[jk_lewis]

I'd keep he moss off the bark. Azalea bark is easily dmaged by the damp under the moss. Cute tree.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

I got it off the next afternoon, I ran out of time when taking the pictures, had to take my daughter to practice. Thanks.

John