Forums46
Topics537,790
Posts9,729,173
Members87,042
|
Most Online25,604 Feb 12th, 2024
|
|
|
Azaelas ect
#7427687
02/08/19 03:22 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681
DSST_Construction
OP
THF Celebrity
|
OP
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681 |
Looking to plant some in font of the house. Anyone have any advise for me? All advise is helpful.
We work anything an everything masonry,we have been in this trade for over 40+ years of experience. We fix/repair/build anything masonry
DSST Construction Services Deputy (713) 826-4451 Office (713) 417-7167 Email k5blaser88@yahoo.com
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7427756
02/08/19 05:20 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 22,716
BigPig
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 22,716 |
My advice is to pick another plant. Pickiest damn plant to grow. Some people can grow them, most can’t. Beautiful if you can grow them. I’ve wasted a lot of money trying to get everything right for them, and they all died.
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: BigPig]
#7427851
02/08/19 01:45 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 91,416
bill oxner
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 91,416 |
My advice is to pick another plant. Pickiest damn plant to grow. Some people can grow them, most can’t. Beautiful if you can grow them. I’ve wasted a lot of money trying to get everything right for them, and they all died. Bingo. Had great ones in New Orleans, but could not grown them in my pecan pasture turned into a subdivision.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7427905
02/08/19 02:42 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630
Cast
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630 |
Mom brought her azaleas from my childhood home in Marshall (sandy loam) to SW Houston (back clay) to Point Blank (sandy loam). Now mom couldn’t kill a plant if she tried.
Anyhow, they’ve been at my Point Blank place living happily under the pine trees for forty years. They get very little maintenance, annual bed cleaning, hardly ever need water. They’ll be blooming soon and they are really something when they do.
If you can’t grow them it’s the soil. And you’re not mom. You can do what I did here in North Texas to get my three pine trees to prosper. Back hoe, huge deep hole, fill with acidic soils, sand and pine bark mulch while adding sulphur as it fills. Three huge pine trees fill that hole now, 20 years later. I was digging in a limestone rich area, thus all the acid.
But I gave up trying to grow a dogwood here. They grow wild in Point Blank. We clean them from the beds as they pop up.
Cast I have a short attention spa
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7428369
02/08/19 08:53 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681
DSST_Construction
OP
THF Celebrity
|
OP
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681 |
Ive read they like a acidy soil , like pine bark shavings is good around the bed.
We work anything an everything masonry,we have been in this trade for over 40+ years of experience. We fix/repair/build anything masonry
DSST Construction Services Deputy (713) 826-4451 Office (713) 417-7167 Email k5blaser88@yahoo.com
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7428434
02/08/19 09:37 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630
Cast
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630 |
Mine get auto mulched with pine needles.
Cast I have a short attention spa
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7429688
02/10/19 07:44 AM
|
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 32,485
kmon11
junior
|
junior
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 32,485 |
Yes Acidic soil, pine tees add acid to the soil and Azaleas do very good under and around pines for that reason
lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7429728
02/10/19 01:46 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 878
Jman
Tracker
|
Tracker
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 878 |
Avoid direct sun if possible. I would also avoid planting next to house where they would get reflected heat from like brick.
If you don’t have acidic soil you’ll never get the full benefit of their floral display without a lot of work.
Jim Featherston Mortgage Loan Officer - NMLS 2509901 Red Diamond Home Loans 165 S Kimball Ave, Suite 100 Southlake, TX 76092 PH 972-890-3114 Apply at: RDHLoans.com/Jim
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7430793
02/11/19 02:36 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681
DSST_Construction
OP
THF Celebrity
|
OP
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681 |
What do i mix with my soil to get it acidy
We work anything an everything masonry,we have been in this trade for over 40+ years of experience. We fix/repair/build anything masonry
DSST Construction Services Deputy (713) 826-4451 Office (713) 417-7167 Email k5blaser88@yahoo.com
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7430823
02/11/19 02:59 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630
Cast
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630 |
What do i mix with my soil to get it acidy Sulfur, pine barkmulch, sheep manure compost.
Cast I have a short attention spa
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: Cast]
#7430967
02/11/19 05:01 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 65,517
SnakeWrangler
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 65,517 |
What do i mix with my soil to get it acidy Sulfur, pine barkmulch, sheep manure compost. 4-6” of pine straw helps too
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
|
|
|
Re: Azaelas ect
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#7430988
02/11/19 05:26 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630
Cast
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 22,630 |
In Houston, you basically dig a big hole and fill it with sandy loam, unless you are lucky enough to have pine trees. Mom lived a few blocks behind Bering Hardware for many years and her azaleas flourished. She had trees.
Those same plants were moved to my Point Blank place decades ago when we started building.
Cast I have a short attention spa
|
|
|
Moderated by bigbob_ftw, CCBIRDDOGMAN, Chickenman, Derek, DeRico, Duck_Hunter, hetman, jeh7mmmag, JustWingem, kmon11, kry226, kwrhuntinglab, Payne, pertnear, rifleman, Superduty, txcornhusker
|