"Cereoid+10+" wrote
"The plants do best with plenty of water and fertilizer to encourage
blooming."

Can you explain why we are advised when.... having grown them from seed
.....to keep them fairly pot bound and short of food if we want them to
flower, and to wait 7 or 8 years, yet in the ground your advice is what we
would expect.

Seems to be a contradiction.

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David Hill
Abacus Nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk