Jackie D wrote:
Sacha Wrote:
"Jackie D" wrote

My camelia caught a disease and died. Following advice I recevied
from
my garden centre, I cleansed the soil with diluted Jeyes fluid. snip
Then I transplanted it to the garden in between a lilac tree and a
four
foot high bike shed.
snip

I'm also rather alarmed that he was advised to use Jeyes Fluid - not a
very happy idea for the other plants in the vicinity, I think!
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It was firmly established that there were no other
plants in the vicinity. Do you really think I would have been advised
to use Jeyes if there were? Doubtful.

Unfortunately not doubtful at all. There are places that sell plants
that do give poor advice. Quite rightly, you don't name the garden
centre so we have no way of knowing whether it's in that category, or
not and most of us probably wouldn't know it anyway. As it and the
person who advise you are unnamed, they can't be defamed, by the way.
In your original post you said that the Camellia was by a lilac. That
was, presumably, a plant in the vicinity. If it wasn't, there was no
point in mentioning it.

I am alarmed by the tone of some of the replies and concerned by one or
two of the comments: for example, my garden centre experts do not give
out advice 'blithely'. Did I say they did? No, I don't think so. As
this is a public forum, can I suggest that we choose our words with
care otherwise we risk defaming innocent people.

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Clearly your post has misled a few people, given the answers you
received. Can *I* suggest that explaining your problem more clearly
would have avoided that. Either the lilac was near the Camellia or it
wasn't. Now you're saying it wasn't where before, you indicated that
it was. Perhaps you should return to the garden centre that told you
to use Jeyes Fluid and ask them if that caused the acer to die and
whether or not it is safe to use the pot again.
You received good information and advice on the matter of the Camellia
because firstly you wrote about it at some length and secondly, this is
an unmoderated newsgroup, not a forum, so nobody dictates who answers
what and how they do so. Perhaps the fact that you post through Garden
Banter has made you unaware of that.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon