Leo in N E Illinois
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I went nuts, blame it on being cooped up avoiding Covid19. So far so good for myself.
I was shopping on line at Singing Tree, a mail order nursery that I've dealt with in the past. Prices are fairly good, not "cheap" but not overly expensive. I picked up 4 azaleas, #1 size, roughly about a 5 inch diameter pot size, or a "small" one gallon size. I'm just going to up pot them into gallon nursery pots. I'll worry about working the roots next spring, or even the following spring. All in all the azaleas were only $17 each, which while more than the discount rack at the big box store, these were named varieties, with labels, and single trunks.
Key pick up was 'Issho-no-haru' which is a particularly nice Satsuki. It was this being listed as "back in stock" that was the reason I placed an order. It was $25 rather than the $17 of the others, but it is the one I wanted. The others were more impulse buys I could have done without. 'Polo' is a Nuccio's cultivar of some fame, has a good reputation for bonsai too. I liked 'Ripples' because it has double flowers, I've always been fond of doubles. I believe the 'Issho-no-haru' is the only one of the 4 that is a full Satsuki, the 'Polo' and 'Ripples' are listed as Tsutsusi hybrids and 'Kinpai' is listed as simply an azalea hybrid.
I believe the tsutsusi hybrids include Kurume type hybrids.
Fresh from the box, all in a row.
I also ended up picking up a grafted Pinus strobus 'Niagara Falls' - I know, I am one of the first to "dog" the use of strobus as bonsai. I am going to "play" with this one. The description on a Conifer Kingdom website originally described it in terms that made it sound like a yatsubusa budding pattern. And indeed, it does have a much more dense bud pattern than P. strobus 'Pendula' that was in the landscape of my folks home. It is a weeping cultivar, so probably not going to become bonsai any time soon. But it caught my eye. Graft is pretty ugly, another reason this may end up being only a landscape plant. But I wanted it around to experiment with.
Below are Singing tree photos of the flowers for the azaleas I picked up.
Picked up 'Issho no haru'
'Kinpai'
'Ripples'
'Polo'
I was shopping on line at Singing Tree, a mail order nursery that I've dealt with in the past. Prices are fairly good, not "cheap" but not overly expensive. I picked up 4 azaleas, #1 size, roughly about a 5 inch diameter pot size, or a "small" one gallon size. I'm just going to up pot them into gallon nursery pots. I'll worry about working the roots next spring, or even the following spring. All in all the azaleas were only $17 each, which while more than the discount rack at the big box store, these were named varieties, with labels, and single trunks.
Key pick up was 'Issho-no-haru' which is a particularly nice Satsuki. It was this being listed as "back in stock" that was the reason I placed an order. It was $25 rather than the $17 of the others, but it is the one I wanted. The others were more impulse buys I could have done without. 'Polo' is a Nuccio's cultivar of some fame, has a good reputation for bonsai too. I liked 'Ripples' because it has double flowers, I've always been fond of doubles. I believe the 'Issho-no-haru' is the only one of the 4 that is a full Satsuki, the 'Polo' and 'Ripples' are listed as Tsutsusi hybrids and 'Kinpai' is listed as simply an azalea hybrid.
I believe the tsutsusi hybrids include Kurume type hybrids.
Fresh from the box, all in a row.
I also ended up picking up a grafted Pinus strobus 'Niagara Falls' - I know, I am one of the first to "dog" the use of strobus as bonsai. I am going to "play" with this one. The description on a Conifer Kingdom website originally described it in terms that made it sound like a yatsubusa budding pattern. And indeed, it does have a much more dense bud pattern than P. strobus 'Pendula' that was in the landscape of my folks home. It is a weeping cultivar, so probably not going to become bonsai any time soon. But it caught my eye. Graft is pretty ugly, another reason this may end up being only a landscape plant. But I wanted it around to experiment with.
Below are Singing tree photos of the flowers for the azaleas I picked up.
Picked up 'Issho no haru'
'Kinpai'
'Ripples'
'Polo'