"Kay" wrote in message
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"Kay" wrote in message
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Flowering all year, or just the winter ones? Have you asked the
neighbour whether they are erica or Calluna?

Well, they are flowering now so I guess they must be the winter/spring
variety.

From what Rod was saying, likely to be lime tolerant ones then.

Can you grow any of pernettya, gaultheria, skimmia?
Do you have any evergreen plants whose leaves are going a sickly yellow?
Are there any hydrangeas around? - do they tend to have pink flowers or
blue?

We have tried to grow a white flowering climbing hydrangea without success.
Initially it bloomed in a pot, but once in the ground - it gave up!

We have many evergreen shrubs that have no problem growing, particularly
tall conifers. Indeed, a large part of the garden is based around a
shrubbery. Most of this was planted last year, but everything appears great
at the moment - with the exception of the juniper I talk about below.

I planted a 'juniper golden carpet variety' in the autumn last year and
though the leaves still appear green, some at the very bottom have turned
dry and appear to have died. I still believe it is ok though, since I think
it is probably more to do with the fact that it has not had time to
establish properly considering I only planted it last autumn.

Something has just occured to me. We have very 'limy' tap water that I used
to help establish the heathers. What an idiot! I bet I've damaged them
myself. What an idiot.

Alex