Thread: Sick Hebe
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Old 20-05-2005, 05:17 PM
ZoeM ZoeM is offline
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Originally Posted by Ed B
I have a one year old hebe that is looking very sorry for itself. I
called the garden centre and they suggested i cut the stalk to check it
ws alive, and it is green so I presume that's a yes. However it is very
sparse, all the bottom leaves have dropped off and the top ones are
hardly what you'd call shiny. Some are half brown.

What should I feed it to try and perk it up

cheers
ed

I had this problem with a hebe - turned out it wasn't fully hardy. Also - it needed quite a lot more water than I thought it did! I gave it lots of water and it perked back up.

Zoe