The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: ellied on May 06, 2011, 10:25:16 am
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When I moved here I had several azalea bushes growing in the orchard and lovely as they were I wanted veg beds so they had to move to provide an alternative path through..
5 were relocated - 2 under an apple tree elsewhere in the garden seem to be doing fine, another 3 are in the same bed in front of the oil tank and of those 3 one is doing well (about to flower), one has half of it in leaf the other half brown, and the third in line appears dead ??? All in the same soil, same amount of watering, same level of the bed and the dead one was perhaps under slightly more shade but I cut back the branch last year and thought it'd come back.
Any ideas? I suppose the 3rd is a hopeless case but is there any chance of restoring half a bush to a whole bush? Can you prune azaleas back to just the healthy section or would that do more damage?
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You can't do more damage than dead so I'd cut it back. Are they perhaps in a draught? Azaleas don't like that. I take it there's never any leakage from your oil tank when being filled? And do you keep an eye on the driver - they aren't too careful about plants in my experience. I don't think they take kindly to being moved either but I suppose the others are Ok, so 3 out of 5 ain't bad.