Azalea Picture Identification Thread
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Bob Hunter
Shohin
Suzuno homare
Glaucus
Omono
'Asazakura'
From now on, I'll be using the 'Honey' filter of Google Photos at the lowest setting for now to brighten up the colours a bit.
From now on, I'll be using the 'Honey' filter of Google Photos at the lowest setting for now to brighten up the colours a bit.
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Midnight Flare
Glaucus
Omono
I guess you beat me too it. Mine right now looks slightly different. The flowers are very opened and recurve back nicely. Yours just started flowering? Or are the flowers too crowded?
Mine bleaches in full sunlight, like almost all reds.
Actually, all my pictures look 'bad' because the colour is too dark of a red and the camera on my phone can't capture it. Best attempt:
The shine in the picture somehow turns pinkish purple. I guess the colours are over-saturating the camera or something.
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Ugo
Shohin
Satsuki Shiroihanakazari variation
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
I just got back from White's. Picked up 13 more azaleas. It seems as mine is at the prime of the bloom. I expect the flowers the go downhill from now. The flowers are very crowded, you can barely see the leaves.
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Zephyr
Bob Hunter
Shohin
Kiraboshi
Glaucus
Omono
'Aika'
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Marian Lee
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Friendship
Glaucus
Omono
Good pictures of 'Marian Lee'. It always looked a better white center variety to me than 'Shinnyo no Tsuki', 'Margaret Doughlas' and 'Martha Hitchcock'. Those pictures seem to confirm.
And 'Frienship' must be one of those 'souped up' versions of 'Osakazuki' that dr.Morrison got when he hybridized with 'Osakazuki'.
And 'Frienship' must be one of those 'souped up' versions of 'Osakazuki' that dr.Morrison got when he hybridized with 'Osakazuki'.
Deep Sea Diver
Imperial Masterpiece
Koromo Shikibu in the morning Puget Sound “sun”.
This one almost didn’t make it a couple years back. Presently shaping up to a fairly decent tree. Likes to be lanky. Last year, in frustration, I cut it back hard on a couple branches just to see if it could be forced to backbud. It did, but unevenly.
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This one almost didn’t make it a couple years back. Presently shaping up to a fairly decent tree. Likes to be lanky. Last year, in frustration, I cut it back hard on a couple branches just to see if it could be forced to backbud. It did, but unevenly.
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Glaucus
Omono
'Hanatsuzuri'
This whip for sure has the nice patterns going on. And multiple petals. It seems the downside of more than 6 petals is that sometimes, the flower just comes out malformed.
But this one has some good ones here too, an almost symmetrical 7-petal (and a highly asymmetrical 5 petal). It does not have a flower with fine dusting of red speckles (muji shibori) this year, which it did have in 2021.
And I swear it is much more red than in 2021, where it looked a bit carmine red to my eyes. The colour is more pleasant now.
I have a larger 'Hanatsuzuri' plant in my garden and in 2022 that one only had mediocre flowers. Either all white, or white with a red blotch. Maybe that one doesn't have the full mojo.
When buying these cultivar, just the cultivar name isn't everything. It has to be an individual plant that still has the inclination to sport in the right way. It may be that sometimes the mundane can take over. But I am still learning there too.
A large part of the satsuki hobby in Japan is highly focused on getting a tree with the right flower colour variations on display during the spring exhibitions.
This year, a 'Hanatsuzuri' also won the flower display award at the Kanuma show (see the other thread for a video).
This whip for sure has the nice patterns going on. And multiple petals. It seems the downside of more than 6 petals is that sometimes, the flower just comes out malformed.
But this one has some good ones here too, an almost symmetrical 7-petal (and a highly asymmetrical 5 petal). It does not have a flower with fine dusting of red speckles (muji shibori) this year, which it did have in 2021.
And I swear it is much more red than in 2021, where it looked a bit carmine red to my eyes. The colour is more pleasant now.
I have a larger 'Hanatsuzuri' plant in my garden and in 2022 that one only had mediocre flowers. Either all white, or white with a red blotch. Maybe that one doesn't have the full mojo.
When buying these cultivar, just the cultivar name isn't everything. It has to be an individual plant that still has the inclination to sport in the right way. It may be that sometimes the mundane can take over. But I am still learning there too.
A large part of the satsuki hobby in Japan is highly focused on getting a tree with the right flower colour variations on display during the spring exhibitions.
This year, a 'Hanatsuzuri' also won the flower display award at the Kanuma show (see the other thread for a video).
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
I cant recall if I posted this one or not. But this azalea full with flowers gives a good idea what to expect when in bloom.
Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer
Ugo
Shohin
Meguriai
Cant wait to present this flower tower next year
Cant wait to present this flower tower next year
Glaucus
Omono
sport of 'Easter Parade' (possibly 'Caprice'?)
Large flower that is a complete hose in hose, which you can't really see in this picture. Sometimes also petaloid or semidouble. So a lot of petal tissue on this one. (and a petal blight magnet, sadly.)
Large flower that is a complete hose in hose, which you can't really see in this picture. Sometimes also petaloid or semidouble. So a lot of petal tissue on this one. (and a petal blight magnet, sadly.)
Bob Hunter
Shohin
Nijinoka kehashi
Deep Sea Diver
Imperial Masterpiece
Issho no Haru
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