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Stare back my Azealia that is looking pretty overgrown and scruffy here
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It had grown well last season and it's very much still in development at this point
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So it's alright that it's pretty ugly. In December you can see some leaves are turning colour, they look a bit yellow and are dropping off
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Azealias are evergreen so it's not actually losing leaves, it's just some old ones dropping off here
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In February it's time to sort this mess out. From certain angles you can see there is a sort of structure but there's a lot of work
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and growth still need it on this tree. And here I'm not really pruning it back, I'm just going around and removing all the extra growth
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When you prune Rosalia it will send out a number of shoots from the same spot, usually about four
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So I'm just going in and removing anything extra and keeping the two good branches in one area
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This will make the tree look tidier but it also means there's a lot of branches. that I'm not touching, so it should still flower later in the year
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If you zoom in here you can see at the end of this branch there, four shoots, too small
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and two really long ones. So of course it makes sense to get rid of the really long ones and just leave two little
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short ones. And that's all I've been doing here across the whole tree
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And here we are after it looks alright this tree tree a few years and I think it will look pretty good
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There's nothing going on in March, it hasn't woken up yet. But I'm sure it will very soon
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I'm not going to repop the tree this year, so I don't really need to be watching for the optimum time to do that
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In April, the new buds started to swell a bit. But not that much
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There isn't really much going on. But it is clearly a good time to do some weeding, apparently
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There is certainly some change in May. The flower buds are really starting to show
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There's quite a lot of them, so it's going to look pretty good in a minute. If I just bring you in Christ
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So sure you can really see they are quite big. They're not everywhere, but there's still a lot of flowers
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This is another reason why I think this tree will be fantastic in a few years' time
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A few days later, and they've started the open, you can really tell why this species is so popular
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This isn't even a fancy azalea and they still look awesome. Now if I zoom back out, you can see how cool it looks
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While there still a few more left open I and I think this is the mall pretty much open
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I'm really happy with it. Like I said, there's going to be an awesome tree in the future
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But unfortunately, the glory is short-lived, and in June we have this mess. So I'm just going to go through and remove all the
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dead flowers and then trim everything back. If remember in February I just removed a lot of the extra branches
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whereas here I'll actually prune back all the branches that I didn't touch in February
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After this the tree will be left to grow again, and it will send loads of new shoots out
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It will do exactly the same thing and send out four shoots again in one spot
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And it will cause a real mess. But that the cycle of this tree Next February I come back again and I remove all the extra branches that is produced from this pruning right here Then I prune it back after the floors again
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next summer. I'll just keep doing that year after year until this tree is epic looking. Growing
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bonsai isn't hard, it's just outrageously slow. And here we are after
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You can see there's a structure of a tree in there. It just needs the time to mature
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And obviously there's nothing happening in July. just recovering from that pruning. In August it still looks like there's not much going on but it is starting to push
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some rude buds out so it is growing. It's just taking things slowly and that's fine. I'm in no
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rush. And here it is now where it's pretty much going to slow down for the year
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I know it's slow to develop but I'm happy of how it's going so far. Thanks for watching. See you next time
