On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:48:47 +0000, Pendrag0n wrote:

Hello all,

I have seen a few local gardens with decent heathers that seem to
flower all year, if you can call them flowers, sort of mauve, purple,
white etc. Probably up to about 50cm. Any ideas on what I should get
to plant and forget, hopefully quick growing. Along the side of the
house etc.

Not much of a gardener as is quite apparent

TIA

PS: The soil round here seem to retain the water for ages. I pinched
some of the farmers field for a couple of pot plants and they never
seem to dry!! Whereas the composty stuff I had before needed watering
every few days. It's not clay.


Hello All, thank you for previous replies.

I now have the tester from Hong Kong and it seems to work well,
certainly on moist content of plant pots. Of four indoor pots I have,
two were bone dry, one was too moist and the other just about OK, yet
they are the same plant and all watered a few days ago (money plant)

However the ph thing doesn't seem to move much, and my soil appears to
be 7+ for sure, which you said was alkaline. (how can you test the ph
meter is working?) in which case what heathers do you think again, now
we have the ph?

TIA