I GOT home at the PERFECT TIME!!!

[swerve]

I am a FLOWER NUT!!!

And the Azalea's are AT THEIR PEAK!!! This is only the 4th day I've been home ALL YEAR (I have been working WAY TOO HARD) -- but the timing could not have been better...

Here are a few quick pic's Opinterph took of the ones at the front of our home with my Droid camera...

They're also around the pool area in back of the house -- but we haven't opened the pool yet...

 

[Rule-Of-Thirds]

Very nice!!

 

[FPNY]

wow, stunning!

 

[Dodger712]

Yes they are beautiful this year aren't they. The Tulip trees and Dogwood were also beautiful in my part of Louisiana.

 

[AbnormalDann]

The flowers look stunning, I just wish Elvin's avatar wasn't staring me in the face.

I'm torn between Azalea's and Elvin's ass.

 

[Horschallen]

Beautiful. This eve when I returned home from some errands, I took a brief walk around the bend (street) and noticed my azalea bush is sporting dark red buds... lots of them for a fairly small one. I figure in a few days they will be in full bloom. I look forward to it.

 

[operafan]

Wow! They are stunning. Do they work as cut flowers?

 

[Corny]

and oblivious me came to this thread hoping it's some story about opinterph just coming out of the shower and ready for some homecoming sex

 

[Lawnmowerman]

Those are some nice flowers there . I'm so glad spring is here and everything's growing and blooming, sure beats the dismal grey we've had for so long.

 

[freefall]

Wow, what a superb view. I used to have azaleas, but never did they bloom this glamorous. In fact they only bloom once then vanished (dunno who threw them away --')

What's your secret?

 

[Kulindahr]

The azaleas at my mom's house are blooming, too. I love the red ones with their smaller blossoms. Too bad they'll all be someone else's azaleas soon.


One way to help azaleas flourish is to mix your coffee grounds into a little potting soil (less soil than grounds) and work into into the mound of self-made mulch under the shrub (all the leaves and blossoms of the past). Then water that lightly for a few days, to get the nutrients on their way down to the roots.

But generally azaleas bloom well as long as they're in dark soil and their dead leaves and blossoms are allowed to accumulate under them.

 

[swerve]

Wow! They are stunning. Do they work as cut flowers?

I don't remember ever seeing them as cut flowers -- but I don't know for sure...

 

[swerve]

and oblivious me came to this thread hoping it's some story about opinterph just coming out of the shower and ready for some homecoming sex

I don't THINK I'm ALLOWED to post those pics in Hot Topics...

 

[swerve]

Wow, what a superb view. I used to have azaleas, but never did they bloom this glamorous. In fact they only bloom once then vanished (dunno who threw them away --')

What's your secret?

Trust me -- I have NO secret...

Although they always bloom -- in the 11 years we've lived here -- they have NEVER been THIS NICE before...

 

[KewinLtr]

Wow Very nice!! i love that colorr

 

[Kulindahr]

Trust me -- I have NO secret...

Although they always bloom -- in the 11 years we've lived here -- they have NEVER been THIS NICE before...

It's global warming.

 

[Joshua_me]

I'm torn between Azalea's and Elvin's ass.

Oh, that's easy....

One's an object of stunning beauty the would look magnificent in full bloom spread wide in the garden....
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[Kulindahr]

I don't remember ever seeing them as cut flowers -- but I don't know for sure...

I saw some as cut flowers as centerpieces for an event once. That doesn't say much, though; they only had to last a few hours.

As a handyman who's dealt with these shrubs in many yards, though, I have one observation: cutting branches when there are fresh flowers on them is not good for an azalea bush. I watched someone trimming an azalea like a regular shrub when it was blooming, and a week after the branches most trimmed were dying -- that's one danger. The other is that azaleas are part of that section of the plant kingdom that generally react to being trimmed by putting out even more branches, and not ordinary ones, either; they can shoot out straight in all sort of directions, ruining the natural appearance of the bush (OTOH, with over 10,000 floral varieties, some azaleas need to be trimmed [generally, but not always, those with tiny blossoms, which these plainly aren't]).

So I'd say that regardless of how they might do as cut flowers -- don't cut them; it's likely to be bad for the source plant.