take the lower limb/s(still attached to mother plant)) of your exsisting azalea,bury it in a shallow depression below the mother plant then weigh it down w/ a rock. Come fall test the limb to see if it has rooted by "gentley" tugging on it. If it has resistance...it's rooted if not put the rock back on it and leave it until the following spring. Hope that was clear as mud...LOL I can't root azalea or oak lief hydrangea cutings but this method works great for me. Peggy

Alicia, around here you can buy bags of long fiber dried sphagnum moss at garden centers -- I've even seen it at Lowe's, too. That's what I use. I just rub it through a strainer, the ordinary kind with a handle you can buy in the kitchen tools section of a grocery store. It's the same moss as florists use, just dried. If the potting mix stays too moist or drainage isn't sufficient, add perlite. Don't worry about the seemingly big size of the perlite relative to the tiny seed. The sphagnum moss (or live moss, like Mainegrower uses) gets the seed going and then it roots down easily into the medium below. It seems to me azalea seedlings likes a lot of oxygen in the soil and not too much wet. Once they get beyond a certain size it becomes less critical. The other thing to do is make sure your containers have as many drain holes as you can reasonably punch in the bottom. I use an ice pick and put maybe 20 sizable holes in the bottom of a 3" x 5" container. You want the water to flow freely out of the bottom. Soeur

I've never tried them but I seem to remember Hal Massie saying he sowed them directly on top of damp peat moss. He may have covered this with glass, I don't remember.

Yes, I did get some from Sheffield's and a couple of people have offered me some from their gardens. Thanks, Susan