I've picked up some nice looking, though very tall and leggy
azaleas
that i'd like to put in the ground for now. How late can i
prune them
back hard and still get blooms in the spring? I'm in Zone 7.

No later than NOW! But you shouldn't expect a heavy bloom the
first year after planting, anyway. I'd trim it now, and wait for
blooms the year after next. It's not particularly healthy for
the bush to bloom the year after such a late planting, anyway.
Your plants will be expending a LOT of energy just for survival,
being planted this later in the summer.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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