Azalea #1

This tree was purchased in Japan during the fall of 2000. It was purchased from Hiro Yamaji's nursery. It was shipped along with several other purchased trees and arrived in my garden in the Spring of 2001. It was slow developing for the first couple of years but is much stonger now. My only plan with this tree is to develop long flat pads of foliage in the typical "shaped for the blooms" fashion. It is in a very nice round Sara Rayner pot that I purchased at the 2005 World Convention in DC.