You are right on there! Jim and his brother Tom have literally spent hours on the phone with me, talking over propagation techniques, cultivar selection and general horticulture with me on and off for two years. They are my go to guys for azalea cultivars, and now camellia cultivars, that are robust and healthy.
Good for them, but sadly for us, the pandemic was so good to their nursery... people staying close to home rebuilding gardens and their mail order business boomed with everyone buying their stock like crazy from all over the US that their plants are a bit smaller then the usual full gallon pots. That will likely be corrected by fall. Still their existing stock (I got a 20 azalea order last month from them.) always has one well cultivated azalea to a pot, unlike the anemic two plants per pot in the nurseries here. However as I’ve had to look elsewhere for some cultivars, I’ve found that even their a bit ‘smaller‘ plants are well bigger then what others have sent me. I guess all the US nursery stock has they only charge, so theynice peopbeen in high demand for the past year....
I’ll be visiting Nuccios in Alhambra for a long put off tour this winter once everything is bedded down in the new cold frames. Guaranteed I’ll be bringing a few goodies back home!
cheers
DSD sends