Janet Baraclough wrote:
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The rain, and wind, come from 300 miles of Atlantic ocean
and are heavily salt-laden.

Next you'll be asserting water can be lit on fire! Salt is NOT
evaporated into clouds & precipitation NEVER salinizes soils.

Wrong.


http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/env...#salt%20source

I haven't said Scottish soil is saline. It clearly isn't because
it's fertile. However, plants (and everything else) are constantly
salted-upon, because of weather conditions here. Because of the high
rainfall, salt doesn't accumulate to a harmful degree as it does in
dry climates like Australia's; but seasalt rain does contribute to
our acid-rain problems.


Scotland is almost as
good as the Pacific Northwest for rhodies because they require
acidic soils & areas of heavy rainfall wash salts OUT of the soil
which results in acidity. In LOW-preciptation regions soils
become saline. And rhododendrons will no longer grow.

I haven't claimed the soil is saline. The original post to which I
replied, said that ericaceous plants do not grow beside the sea.
They do, here.

And also as in the Pacific Northwest rhodies can be grown just
about anywhere in Scotland EXCEPT along salty shores or
saltmarshes.

Wrong. There are many parts of Scotland where they can't grow.
They do grow along the west coast shore. Perhaps your personal
understanding of "shore" is limited; not all shores and seabords are
sand beach or saltmarsh.

In Scotland saline garden soils are caused by immediate proximity
to shores or lochs,
from irrigation gotten from brackish groundwater of the
lochs, & from chemicalized agricultural methods.

What saline soils? You clearly know nothing of gardening,
irrigation or agriculture in Scotland.

If you can cite something
factual & scientific as evidence that the Atlantic ocean leaps up
& jumps 300 miles inland,

No part of Scotland is more than 40 miles from the sea. (There is
no "300 miles inland", anywhere in Britain.). Salt blows in, on
wind and rain, during storms.

But please, no more of these fairytales about your allegedly busy
life spent in all the gardens of scotland

That fairy tale is your own. Look up the websites in my post to
Stephen, he has misled you.

Janet.

Salt *does* *not* rain from the sky.

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