Janet Baraclough wrote:
Yes, looks like it very much. To flowers they need potash - Maria,
perhaps you should test the ground to find out if it isn't deficient.
They do take around 2 years to flowers, sometimes 3. You should have
another rhodo close by, have you?!

Misleading advice.

Rhododendrons do not flower in their second or
third year from seed.

Rhododendrons do flowers on their second or third year from seed. You
don't know where the plants have come from, seeds, cuttings or bought
and planted there.

The reason such a small plant hasn't flowered yet
is immaturity, as Kay said. Adding potash won't make any difference to
that.

Potash *is* the food of flowers for rhododendrons, irrelevant of the
plant's year. It will benefit any new growth.

The success of a nearby mother-plant at flowering and setting seed,
indicates the soil is not deficient .

You do not know that. I have asked Maria if there is a mother plant
near by. Lets wait and see if there is.


Janet.