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Tiger303 wrote in
s.com:

scondly has anyone any experience and success of growing lavender
stoechas and/or honeysuckle in acid soil?

An approach I've found effective for growing lavenders & other drainage-
lovers on very heavy/clay soil is to put a very thick layer of gravel on
top of clay, and plant lavender so that the bottom of the rootball sits on
top of the clay, with gravel & compost rather than clay all around it.

This means lavenders etc can get moisure from clay layer, but main rootball
is not sitting in it wet in the winter.

Depends how solid your clay is if you have to do this, but it is usually
easier to put layers of new stuff on top and let worms do the digging than
to go at it with spade in hand.

Victoria