With a little knowledge of timing when it comes to pruning azaleas.

The ideal time to give your azaleas a trim is within a three-week period after they finish blooming in spring. This gives the azaleas plenty of time to make flower buds (which appear as pale, fuzzy buds curled tight on the tips of branches) for next year.

If you wait until the late summer or fall to prune, you risk cutting off the flower buds and all you will get next year is a bush full of green treegrind.barted Reading Time: 2 mins.

For major pruning, the best time is in early spring before the plant is ready to put out new growth, so it has the full growing season to fill out and for the new growth to mature. When pruning azaleas to reduce height, particularly older plants, it is best to do the pruning in stages, to minimize the shock to the treegrind.barted Reading Time: 2 mins.

May 05, The best time to trim azaleas is after the blossoms have faded, but before the new blossom buds have started. The next year’s blossoms typically start forming at the beginning of July, so you must prune an azalea bush before then.

If you prune azaleas after the beginning of July, you may not get any flowers on the bush next year. You can prune azaleas in late summer as long as you understand a couple of things.

The azaleas has already set the bloom buds for the next season so you will be trimming next year’s bloom off. As long as you know going into this that it will be 2 years before you have that flower show, go treegrind.barted Reading Time: 6 mins. Jun 25, When to Trim Azaleas You should expect to see azaleas bloom in spring between March and May, depending on the region in which you live. The warmer the climate, the sooner the azalea will bloom.

The time to prune azaleas is determined by when Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. Cut blooms for display from the miniature azalea during the spring and summer flowering period.

Make the cut just outside a leaf set, lateral branch or bud to a length slightly longer than the.