The best time to cut back azaleas is as soon as they finish flowering in the spring. (Chuck Cook, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) QUESTION: What is the best time to severely cut my Formosa azaleas? I ...

Azaleas come in a huge variety of cultivars that offer blooms in a range of colors, but there are also a number of diseases that can damage these shrubs. The likes of gall, rust, blight, mildew, rot ...

For the lucky ones, it is one of the most spectacular azalea seasons on record. It has been the kind of azalea spectacle that made Mobile famous, the kind of spectacle that makes people want to linger ...

QUESTION: The Formosa azaleas I planted promptly curled their leaves and died. Other miniature types have done much better. What could have been the problem? ANSWER: Most likely the larger plants of ...

No matter what the almanac says, spring arrives in Central Florida when the azaleas begin to bloom. It is color that gardeners can count on whether their landscapes experienced a deep freeze or a warm ...

The last party Carson Jewell and Clayton Hamerski held at their Wilmington home was for New Year’s Day 2020. But, as of April 9, the couple were officially entertaining again. This time, it’s as one ...

New Orleans-area gardeners have a special fondness for azaleas. Just look around the city in March and April, and you will see azaleas blooming everywhere. The unique feature of Conversation Piece ...

Every year, LSU AgCenter horticulturists select four plants to add to the Louisiana Super Plant program. Plants don’t come by this designation easily. They must prove they can be beautiful and tough ...

Q. We have two groups of 5-year-old Formosa azaleas. One group in a fairly sunny east bed was doing well, but this year the leaves began to yellow even though we fertilized, mulched and watered. The ...

There are still a lot of overgrown Katrina lots on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, green ghosts left from a decade ago when the driveways led to houses and the concrete slabs held homes. I cut a branch of ...

Beginning today, the city of Savannah Park and Tree Department will begin pruning azaleas on Victory Drive as part of an ongoing long-term effort to revitalize the median on the roadway. Azalea work ...