AusBonsai

I was browsing and came across this thread and was mesmerised Has there been any follow up and how are they going now. Does anyone know the difference between normal azaleas we see here in Aussie and the Satsuki we see on overseas sites??? They have the most tremendous single trunks on them and it's obvious it's nothing to do with age as these ones are 100 years old!! Are the Satsuki a totally different type of azalea?? I'd love one with a trunk of any size...
Loretta

Satsuki azalea originated in Japan, Satsuki azalea is a member of the genus Rhododendron, produces flowers in multiple colors on the same plant, I think thats right, there might be more to it

Thanks Psymo, but how come they all seem to have fabulous thick trunks??

Loretta wrote:Thanks Psymo, but how come they all seem to have fabulous thick trunks??

Its purely the way they are grown. All azalea's are naturally basally dominant, meaning that they will tend to produce many trunks from the base. Everything you get from a nursery or out of a garden will be a shrub with lots of skinny trunks but the ones you see on the japanese web sites have been grown specifically for bonsai so they have always been pruned to a single trunk. All they're energy has been restricted to that one trunk and they can become quite massive with time.

Loretta wrote:I was browsing and came across this thread and was mesmerised Has there been any follow up and how are they going now. Does anyone know the difference between normal azaleas we see here in Aussie and the Satsuki we see on overseas sites??? They have the most tremendous single trunks on them and it's obvious it's nothing to do with age as these ones are 100 years old!! Are the Satsuki a totally different type of azalea?? I'd love one with a trunk of any size...
Loretta

Hi Loretta,

Just to give you (and everyone else) an update on those Azaleas; they are all potted/boxed up and on all of them we can see new buds appearing. The next step is to prune the stumps we don't need or are too damaged. We have to use some powertools for that. This will take up a fair bit of time.
After all that we just let them grow for a season so the rootsystem can recover.

Cheers,

Chris

Chris Sirre wrote:

Chris Sirre wrote:More Azaleas have been dug up. Come and check them out.

Some pics of the wonderful Azaleas I took today. There are some real treasures.

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Chris
If there are some plants going from between one or two hundred dollars and they have a decent neberi will you be prepared to pack them up and send them interstate as I would be very interested in one or two.
thanks Loretta

I forgot to add...my sister has azaleas in her garden on the Gold Coast...she has been there 30 years and they were there long before her...so I'm desperately trying to sponge a couple from her

Sounds like these are coming along nicely.

Hi Chris,

Count me in for 100 year old azaleas between $100 to $200. I will get a few - can you post pics.

Leigh Taafe wrote:Hi Chris,

Count me in for 100 year old azaleas between $100 to $200. I will get a few - can you post pics.

Hi Leigh,

I will put some apart for you and will take some pics.


Cheers,

Chris

Chris Sirre wrote:

Leigh Taafe wrote:Hi Chris,

Count me in for 100 year old azaleas between $100 to $200. I will get a few - can you post pics.

Hi Leigh,

I will put some apart for you and will take some pics.


Cheers,

Chris

Don't forget me.....Loretta

Are there any signs of variety?
Am I too late for the selling of wonderful stock?

Hi all,

I'm sure you are all looking forward to see what is going on with our giant Azaleas?
Today we spent a couple hours cleaning up the bases and prune the canopies. There are some gems in there. I hope to have 2 of them ready in a couple of years to send to Canberra. So Grant and Leigh make some space! I will get some pots in the next few months for them, some of them will be 130cm!

I took some pics and will share them with you all....because I'm such a nice guy.

Enjoy and please feel free to come to the nursery to see them up close and personal.

Cheers,

Chris

For more photo's see our Facebook page ; http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... eTheater=1

Cheers,

Chris

Whis I could make my azaleas as healthy as that

I've always hated azaleas. Starting to rethink now...