I wonder if anyone mught help me out with some plant selection. Looking
for an azalea that will clip readily to form 'clouds' and provide
white flowers....


thanks

P

"papanix" wrote in message
...
I wonder if anyone mught help me out with some plant selection. Looking
for an azalea that will clip readily to form 'clouds' and provide
white flowers....

If you go around clipping azaleas you are not likely to get much by way of
flowers.

Franz

I have since realised that it is probably varieties of Rhodendron indica
which is used most often for this. I believe it can be clipped to a
lose rounded shape although I have never seen it clipped to a rigid
shape such as you would do with box or yew. If you look at images of
the central garden at the new Getty museum in Los Angeles they have a
circular maze like pattern made from R. indica which does flower. I
guess if you clip just after flowering you will still get flowers the
following year?

regards



Franz Heymann wrote:
"papanix" wrote in message
...

I wonder if anyone mught help me out with some plant selection. Looking
for an azalea that will clip readily to form 'clouds' and provide
white flowers....


If you go around clipping azaleas you are not likely to get much by way of
flowers.

Franz

papanix wrote in
:

I have since realised that it is probably varieties of Rhodendron
indica
which is used most often for this. I believe it can be clipped to
a
lose rounded shape although I have never seen it clipped to a rigid
shape such as you would do with box or yew. If you look at images of
the central garden at the new Getty museum in Los Angeles they have a
circular maze like pattern made from R. indica which does flower. I
guess if you clip just after flowering you will still get flowers the
following year?

I cut my azaleas back in the autumn and still get loads of blooms. I don't
clip them to a very precise shape though - I just cut back leggy growth to
the height of the main bush, as I don't want them any bigger than they
already are.

If you remember to cut them back just after they have flowered, they make
more shoots which also flower.

However, as my main aim is to keep them in check, I do the cutting later,
and I still get the fabled candlewick bedspread look.

Practically every tiny twig produces flowerbuds, so the only thing to look
out for is not to cut back too hard in one go so you remove too many
flowering twigs.

Victoria

In article , papanix
writes
I have since realised that it is probably varieties of Rhodendron indica
which is used most often for this. I believe it can be clipped to a
lose rounded shape although I have never seen it clipped to a rigid
shape such as you would do with box or yew. If you look at images of
the central garden at the new Getty museum in Los Angeles they have a
circular maze like pattern made from R. indica which does flower. I
guess if you clip just after flowering you will still get flowers the
following year?

It's standard practice in japanese gardens - if you look in your local
bookshop at books on japanese gardening, some of them have lists of
suitable species.

regards



Franz Heymann wrote:
"papanix" wrote in message
...

I wonder if anyone mught help me out with some plant selection. Looking
for an azalea that will clip readily to form 'clouds' and provide
white flowers....


If you go around clipping azaleas you are not likely to get much by way of
flowers.

Franz




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I have since realised that it is probably varieties of Rhodendron indica
which is used most often for this. I believe it can be clipped to a
lose rounded shape although I have never seen it clipped to a rigid
shape such as you would do with box or yew. If you look at images of
the central garden at the new Getty museum in Los Angeles they have a
circular maze like pattern made from R. indica which does flower. I
guess if you clip just after flowering you will still get flowers the
following year?

regards



Franz Heymann wrote:
"papanix" wrote in message
...

I wonder if anyone mught help me out with some plant selection. Looking
for an azalea that will clip readily to form 'clouds' and provide
white flowers....


If you go around clipping azaleas you are not likely to get much by way of
flowers.

Franz



Links to pics of the maze and others:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix...lowerMaze.html
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/getty/

It's a fantastic garden - we saw it in October last year. But the maze is
not white. ;-)
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Sacha
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Thanks for these. I guess there will be a cultivar somewhere that will
be white. I will search the PlantFinder. I hope to visit the central
garden at Easter. Sacha, did you visit any other interesting gardens in
California that I should look up (from a design perspective)...

Many thanks to all

P.





Links to pics of the maze and others:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix...lowerMaze.html
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/getty/

It's a fantastic garden - we saw it in October last year. But the maze is
not white. ;-)