The dwarf azalia season has begun. It actually starts in october and runs to the beginning of march. You can get them in all coulors. My partner was in town this past saturday...was browsing the flower stall in the saturday street market and saw this one. The guy wanted 3 euros for it, but in true Dutch frashion my partner said,"The market is closing, two plants for 5"? Heh heh He went for it, so she got oner for her mother and one for us. This one has two plants in one pot, as you can see. I like this season and although it is possible to keep these plants for a long time, it's nice to have a variety during the season.
I have many dwarf azaleas and they certainly brighten up the garden here in spring. I love the red and pink together - you certainly got a great buy!!!
Thanks Eileen... It's a shame that you can't really see them very well. Perhaps I shall try and enlarge the flowers and re-submit the foto. I'll see. I have to assist my partner with the making of an animated slide show of the vacation fotos, so I'll see when I can get a window of time to do it, in- between everything else. chuckle Here's a little bit better pic.:
That is beautiful Sjord! I don't remember seeing those around here, but now I will be looking for some!
The pink-and-white ones are my favourite. My grandfather loved them and always brought one home for my grandmother when Christmas drew near. I haven't bought mine yet. Maybe Friday.
That is a gorgeous thing!! Never seen anything like it around here. Our holiday flowers are pretty limited to pointsettias (which I love) Christmas cactus (mine is doing awesome!) and amaryllis. Oh heck, I love them all! Deanna :-D
Glad you folks like those dwarfs too. There are some very lovely ones available. Droopy....the white ones with pink edges to the petals are my favourite too! In fact that colour combination is a favourite for me as well in garden plants, such as glads, roses,etc as well as house plants like the christmas cactus (we call them "forest cactus"). I don't know what it is about that colouring, but it's very appealing to my eyes.
very nice flowers but I'm more impressed by the cabinet in the back and your cool looking coffee table. ;0)
Thanks Mr. BT, That small cabinet in the back is Mongolian and the table is a section of an old door panel from India. It is "sunken" enough to fit a glass plate in to protect the panel itself.
Beautiful plants and table. I have never kept any azealas in the house. I'm in Mississippi and we have a lot of showy azealas in the spring. I love them but I have not had much success with them. I have never given up trying and planted two 07 fall.
Oh, D2D...I know about the azalias in Miss, Ala, Ga, SC etc...I have seen them! It is difficult to think of anything quite so impressively beautiful as a 6-7 foot tall azalia full in bloom. And I also noticed such an interesting variety of colours too. Just gorgeous. I wonder about your problems growing them. Have you had a soil analysis done at the site where you want to plant them? I don't know anything at all about growing azalias in the ground, but I would guess that they might require acidic ground. You can accomplish this by filling the hole that you plant them in with special compost. This might be worth looking into. I could be all wrong about this, but there must be an answer. Good luck with them. Don't give up.
Wonderful, Sjoerd!! You know, It was just such "florist" Azaleas that I planted into my yard about 20 years ago - We had just moved here, and I had many gaps in my garden beds - there was a sale after Mother's Day in May, and the remaining little 4 inch pots were reduced to 4 for 50¢. :-D I didn't have any expectation of the plants surviving beyond one season, but couldn't resist them, at the price, just for a little "filler" beneath the Camellia. Much to my surprise, they bloomed that fall, but, still, I was sure they would not survive winter . . . :-o They did, and bloomed again in the spring. They have bloomed every spring and fall since - a photo taken in April: In my opinion, they are worth digging in, just on the chance, especially if your climate is relatively mild (our temperatures occasionally go down into the teens[f]).
