satsuki azalea

I have limited space in my backyard for an enclosure for my bonsai trees and I don't have a garage so I contracted out some work to build an enclosure around my display table that has removable panels for the walls and roof! I'm going to put burlap along the walls (and roof) panels to protect...

Rick A Garcia, author of "Satsuki Azalea Bonsai: A Fundamental Study" has come out with a YouTube Channel! Here are two of the videos uploaded so far: and I am personally excited for more videos from Rick and his channel as there are not alot of definitive experts making videos about Satsuki...

Hi everyone, I am pretty new to bonsai, so I figured you pros can help me out. I have an agriculture and plant biology background so it is pretty humbling for me to do this :) but I figured there are people that specialize in satsuki! I had this small plant from a certified nursery and it...

Hi! I have 2 satsuki azalea, 1 35-year old tree and another, unknown (but obviously younger tree). I didn't water on Friday, August 23 because the temperatures have been cooling down here in Washington DC and I was worried about overwatering. On Saturday, temperatures were starting to increase...

Hey everyone! So I picked up 2 Azaleas this year. Both nursery stock, 1 from Home Depot the other from MrMaple. Com. This one I got from Mr Maple. It’s a Holly Springs ‘Astronaut’ Satzuki. It was quite bushy when I received it a month and a half ago. I repotted into bonsai soil, trimmed...

Hello, I got this Satsuki Azalea yesterday, and I don’t have any experience. I live in Norman, Oklahoma and the temperature now is cold. I read that I have to have it outside and Heel-in it. I live on a third floor, so I just put it outside the window, but I don’t know what to do with the wind...

I have two Satsuki, unknown variety, just the plain pink ones from Brussel's, that I got a few years ago. One I left alone, one I'm trying to make into an exposed root bonsai. Both have grown a lot and are badly in need of a pretty drastic cutback and repot. They are just finishing up a heavy...

It's a simple one, lovely color and shape. I would love to know its Japanese name. Thanks in advance!

Hello all! I am fairly new to bonsai, having been entrusted with a Satsuki azalea after my grandmother's funeral in April. Winter is coming so I thought I ought to make an account and ask for wintering advice, as internet searching hasn't yielded a clear answer. Winters here can be very cold...

Greetings Azalea Folks! For years BNutter advisors have been sharing information to folks on this site about azalea issues. Specifically concerning leaf signs indicating under and over watering, sun burn and over fertilization. In this thread I decided to experiment to see just exactly what...

When I find some azaleas, mostly satsuki cultivars, that I think I might want to add to my collection, I will post notes on them here. Probably usually a picture I found on the internet and what I like about it or some of the info given with the images. As a beginner, who does not speak...

Gosh, I’m always mystified with the different information I get from various sources, online, books by “experts” articles written by practitioners. For only one example, well two, and not to take this as a knock please, it’s just an example of the confusion I have faced in the past five years...

I picked this up a couple weeks ago. There were a few I saw last year when I was up there. This was one that was knocking on deaths door but hasn’t entered. I think these are imported ones from Eldorado when Telaparion bought them out when they closed. they have been untouched in a few years. I...

Good afternoon everyone! I recently received my order of 3 satsuki azaleas from Wayne at Riverbend Gardens. I love their small foliage and wonderful flowers. The cultivars I will developing into, hopefully, one day to become bonsai, are: Kimi Maru, chitose nishiki & ai no tsuki. I recently came...

I bought this 7 y.o. satsuki a week ago, its in pure kanuma right now I believe. I would like it to grow larger, is it advisable to put the rootball into a bigger pot and fill in the difference with vermiculite/bark/perlite mix right now? If you look at the close-up, you can see many dead aerial...

This Chizan satsuki started from a 1 gallon nursery stock and trained as a moyogi blooms every year around the third week of April.

Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on where you are in the world. Recently got into this wonderful hobby and have been reading, listening and watching everything I can to understand care, styling, etc. One of my Azalea trees seems to be getting a lot of dead leaves and brown ends and...

Hi everyone, I am new to bonsais and was gifted a Satsuki Azalea bonsai on Valentines Day. The tree is a cutting and I have had it for about 4 months. It is currently winter in Australia and I am not sure if my tree is dead or not. The leaves have started to go brown and the stems are dry and...

Hi, this is my first post here, i´m kinda new to bonsai i´ve been practicing it for around 2 years now, last year my gf gave me this Satsuki Azalea (at least she said it was an Azalea, but i haven´t found any azaleas with similar leaves in my search.) and it was growing pretty well until last...

Hi friends, I am new to this bonsai thing. I asked for a bonsai tree for Christmas, in my mind since I live in Oklahoma an indoor one would be practical but I was gifted with an outdoor Satsuki azalea. I need tips for this plant and I have a few questions. 1. Can I grow this plant inside? 2...

Hello! My wife and I are just starting in bonsai and are looking to buy a tree. This Satsuki Azalea (pictures attached) caught our eye today but we are a little worried that the leaves are light green/yellow-ish (vs the mostly dark green I've typically seen online). We don't mind the aesthetic...

I got this azalea in May 2017, just at the end of blooming. Since Kinsai is a hybrid cultivar, it’s risky to buy them out of bloom. Their flowers can permanently revert from the desired bright-red, spider-like petals to the paler pink fuller petals. Once the fuller petals take over, that’s it...

Worst scenario: I don't have access to rain water easily, tap water here is hard and alkaline, and I am trying to keep the azaleas happy. So besides the soil mix (unfortunately we don't have Kanuma around) with pine bark and a few laterite pebbles on top, should I water sometimes with some drops...

Hi all I’ve acquired this little satsuki originally imported from Japan and wondered what I can do with the shape ? It’s a cracking little tree and has a great trunk

Hi there! I am completely new to the bonsai world, and DESPERATELY need immediate help. I was recently gifted an "8 year old satsuki azalea bonsai" that shipped from Connecticut. I live in Seattle where the weather is currently in the 60's, cool with some sunlight. I have my bonsai outside on...