Azlea blooming..

It's coming out nicely, but my other one looks weak any ideas why....
17th April




Today

 

It looks healthy enough Harry. It looks as if it needs pruning back into shape, after it's finished blooming prune the side shoots back, not too harshly though and it will encourage it to grow more upright next year.

 

Thanks for your reply, I'm talking about the white colour one, are you saying that's healthy? I haven't pruned it yet as we recently moved in and I didn't know much about gardening, not that I know much now but I'm learning

 

Yes I mean the white one. I can't see anything wrong with it and the fact there are a lot of healthy looking flowers too. If it was sick it either wouldn't flower, or the blooms would have died off.

Azalea's and Rhododendrons are best pruned just after flowering has finished if needs be.

 

This Azalia has been dug up 3 times in the last 2 years due to driveway issues (last time was Nov. 2011- and still flowers it's head off.
This is a young plant that seems to want to climb the fence.

I have considered trimming both - as yet not raised the bottle to actually do it. Guidance would be appreciated.

 

The white one looks to me like an indoor type which has been planted outside (just looking at the flowers). Not that there is anything wrong with that - I've got a couple of 'indoor' azaleas planted out the front which have come through the -19C winter of year before last. It does look a bit 'leggy' so you may want to prune it back to make it bush out a bit.

If you want to prune them, do it just after they've flowered.

If you want them to flower profusely next year, then deadhead them by pinching off the dead flower heads (best done by hand) but making sure to leave the new leaves coming through just underneath

I've got one which was left by a previous owner out front in full sun and which was looking very poorly. Last year I moved it into a pot in semi shade, pruned and deadheaded it and it now looks like this ...

 

I did mine last year Gcc, I just pruned the branches that had got a bit wayward, just like any other plant. After flowering of course!