"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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Help. Someone bought me an azalea for my birthday.

I never have indoor plants/flower presents usually, as most people
know
I don't like plants or flowers indoors.

However I did get this azalea and this blinking thing is now losing
all
its leaves and yet I followed the instructions to the letter. I put it
on a north facing cool window sill, on a dish of pebbles, kept the
water topped up in this (not too high!) fed it a week solution of acid
loving stuff every Saturday and this is how it repays me. The leaves
are
falling off by the shrub-load every time I move it to check.
Can I save it at all?
It's been grown like a small tree, i.e. has a clear stem of about 6-9
inches.
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Are you able to say what the temperature would be on that widow sill in
the daytime and then at about 2am. I ask that because I think is has
subsided due to the fairly severe temperature changes, aggravated by the
cold draught from the window in the early hours. It is so difficult to
replicate the conditions to which it was accustomed; hence its demise.