Azalea question

[memenee]

Do azaleas "come back" like a perennial or if it's gone, it's gone for good.

Finally got some decent weather yesterday and started to do some yard work and noticed that an azalea we had is just simply gone. :-(

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ours die back to mostly twigs over the winter, but they're always at least a little green. This is just an uneducated guess, but I'd say if everything else is green or blooming, it probably died.

[memenee]

May 2, 2017 7:54:13 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

Ours die back to mostly twigs over the winter, but they're always at least a little green. This is just an uneducated guess, but I'd say if everything else is green or blooming, it probably died.

Thank you - that's pretty much what I thought but I was still holding out hope someone would tell me otherwise.

[dr.girlfriend]

I'm not sure what you mean by "gone" -- like the branches are there but with no new growth? I've had big sections of my azalea wither up -- some kind of fungus I'm guessing, but spraying didn't seem to help. I pruned it back severely in the fall and it came back in the spring. If there's no growth anywhere, though, I would guess it's dead, assuming other azaleas are blooming where you are. I'm in the mid-Atlantic and they are all in full bloom right now.

[pooh8402]

I grew up with a bunch of azaleas. My dad pruned them back every fall, and they always blossomed beautifully every spring. I'm guessing you have a dead plant.

[flymetothemoon]

I have a ton of deer in my yard that had taken to seriously snacking on one of my azaleas. I figured it was gone when it appeared to be mostly twigs and three tiny little leaves but it has made a comeback in the last week. It might not hurt to give it some time even if you only have a few little green leaves.

[treedimensional]

There are evergreen azaleas, and deciduous azaleas. You can scratch the bark in a tiny spot, and if you see green underneath, it's alive. Brown is dead.