Georgia Gardening: Azalea bush is alive! What is it?, 1 by TulipLady

TulipLady wrote:
Well, what ever their name, they are really beginning to bloom now. Wonderfull. I've never noticed them before. In all our visits to the Staes I guess we never came in springtime! I see a whole lot of white azalea beginning to bud also.
The bushes look a lot better now that I've taken away all dead branches and approx 15" of compost (read: 10yrs of dead leaves and pine needles and beerbottles!) but you can see 3/4 of the bushes are dull looking. Can I trim them back after they have bloomed?