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Trial and error, and silly moves by newbies
"Cat(h)" wrote in message ups.com... Talking about my gunnera fad in another thread put in my mind some of the unsuccessful trials in my garden. One of those is a couple of Pieris forest flames, which I see so many glorious ones in gardens around the place, and which in my garden are making unconvincing efforts at not dying completely. Am I right to suspect that Pieris needs ericaceous compost? If I were to dig them up, dig a large hole full of the stuff, would they potentially recover, and perform better? Another subject of wonder is a hypericum I planted three years ago - the very first plant I planted in my new garden. It goes through alternate periods of intense growth, producing lots of shoots with lots of new greenery - reddish greenery - then looking for all the world as if somethign was burning it. I first thought that I had dug some too fresh manure in the ground, that that was what was burning it. But everything else in that patch is just thriving - with the exception of one sorry gunnera. Any thought? TIA Cat(h) Hypericum is very prone to rust which makes the leaves appear burnt and shrivelled. If you chop the whole lot back and remove all leaves it should quickly regrow |
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