Don't fertilize. That will just stress them. The main cause of azalea death is too much water and being planted too deep with poor drainage. If the soil was acidic, they were planted in well drained soil a little higher than they were at the nursery, received partial shade, were well mulched, and weren't over watered they should be OK. One nasty killer is not soaking the root ball before planting. If the root ball dries out, it will not accept water. The correct procedure is to open up the root ball with a claw and knife to unwrap or cut any circling roots and if it is dry to soak it before planting.

By the way, miracid is the worst azalea fertilizer. Hollytone is much better but only use in the spring and then only use at half the rate on the package if at all.

Here is a link that might be useful: How to grow azaleas

I planted 3 Crimson Queen Azaleas. Two of them of doing fine, but 1 has lost a lot of the leaves. I am going to try and attach photos. I have treated them with insecticidal soap and some systemic pellets to keep the white flies away. Should I cut it back, or is it hopeless? Can you tell me how to attach photos of the dying plant and the healthy one next to it for you to compare?

Free photo posting sites include photobucket.com and flickr.com

To post images, if you can get them on the internet through either a free photo posting site or by uploading to space provided by your ISP, you can put them in your post with a single line. For example I have a photo of the rhododendron Albert Close at

http://arsfall2009.org/images/AlbertClose.jpg

So I can include the image in this message with the following line:

without the space between {{gwi:398242}}