Two years ago, I moved a sixty-year old deciduous azalea from a garden that was going to be razed for new building. I had been used to enjoying incredible bloom and fragrance from this shrub and wanted to save these joys in my own garden. In the first year, this shrub produced a few sad blooms and then some leaves. Now, in the second year, I have had no blooms at all, but, again, some leaves. In other words, it's not dead, but it's certainly not thriving and I don't know whether it is likely to recover from being moved. I tried taking stem cuttings in the first year, peeling a section of several stems and attaching those special pots we can get at Lee Valley Tools to the stems, but I had no luck at all. Can anyone advise me how to proceed, and when, in the hopes of propagating what has been a very magnificent shrub? With thanks, Susanna
That sound more like layering than cuttage. If plant is very weak cannot be expected to produce good cuttings.
Hi Suzanna, Can you post a few pictures? ie: a wide shot of the whole plant and the other trees and plants it is living near, a close up of the top of the root ball, and another of the folliage and any buds that may be on it. Even dead buds. We need to get some idea of why this Azalea is not doing well. Did you plant it as soon as you got home with it?
