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Leggy azalea pruning help

TJ01TJ01 Posts: 7
in Problem solving
As you can see from the photo, beautiful flowers but leggy growth with big gaps (doesn’t look great for the remainder of the year!). I know I should prune after flowering but wondering how hard to go or if anyone has any tips for how to promote more new growth. Much appreciated!


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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have some small ones grown from cuttings and some of those have grown leggy so I've just pinched out the small, shoots at the tips of the non-flowering stems to encourage them to break bud lower down.   I use the same pinching techique to remove faded flowers and avoid damaging the new buds behind.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    The Japanese clip them into quite dense bushes.  I gve mine the same treatment.  I do nothing special, but they soon bud up and even flower on the new growth the next year.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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