Acid Lovers (Bedding Plants in General)

Member Name: shipmate

Product:	Bedding Plants in General
Date:	08/07/00 (63 review reads)
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Advantages: Beautiful Plants

Disadvantages: Difficult in Lime soil

Rhododendron, Azalea, Pieris, Camelea. When the Spring flowers, Daffodil, Crocus, Snowdrop etc. that herald the arrival of warmer weather start to die off, it is the purples,pinks and reds of the spectacular woodland plants that carry us through to the emergence of the summer bedding plants. They are the plants that I love best, but they are also the plants that will not thrive in my garden.
I have a very limey soil that they will not tolerate for long. However they will tolerate it for about three years.
My solution to this is to accept the fact that the plants will die after about three years. In the meantime, I feed them and water them well, they will grow and flower. In their last year, they will flower profusely, then turn brown and die. I have tried all sorts to prevent this, all to no avail. My advice to anybody in this situation is to do the same as me, be prepared to replace your plants after 3 years and enjoy them while they last.

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