My Azalea looks healthy. Why isn't it blooming.

by Natasha
(Weyanoke, LA)

I have a row of what I think are Azaleas growing next to my house. I can't see any thing wrong with them They look very healthy to me. But out of the six or seven plants I only had one cluster with three flowers bloom this spring. What could be the reason they are not blooming?

Doug says in your climate it isn't winter kill. So assuming that the plants are growing well, I'd wonder if you're feeding them too much. Like on the edge of a lawn where they're getting too much nitrogen (grows great leaves at the expense of flowers). Or you've sprayed them with something that killed off the buds. Or root pruned with construction.

Plants don't bloom because they're under stress - growing too much from nitrogen, or other environmental reason. So - the job is to figure out what they want and how to get it to them.

Sorry can't give you more info than that from here.