Acid Loving Plants

A year ago, I purchased a Daphne 'Perfume Princess' bush, and it has only grown leaves, nothing else. I am disappointed as I was looking forward to the lovely fragrance! Can you please tell me what could have happened or if there was something wrong with the plant when I brought it? 

I have some medium sized Rhododendrons on my small lawn area. Some of the leaves are turning yellow. I'm just wondering if I should mulch around the base to kill the grass or prune and fertilise to make them a bit healthier. 

I love my Daphne bush, but it is dying. It is about a year old and growing by a fence where the ground is very wet. Is there any way of saving it, I have used Acid fertiliser. Should I shift it? 

I enjoy the beautiful colours of our hydrangeas but not so much when the colour fades and start to look washed out. Is there anything I can do to rejuvenate the hydrangeas and enhance the colour for a longer period of time?

I have a daphne bush that is not doing well and hasn’t flowered for a few years. I am not sure what is wrong. I have feed it with fertiliser, and it is in the garden in a nice sunny, sheltered spot.

I've got a lovely gardenia that I've managed not to kill and it's going well in a pot under my camelia tree - it's grown a lot and flowers well. The problem is something is eating it. Can you help please?

A couple of years ago I planted a Daphne facing east. However, it did not do well so I put it in a pot in April this year with potting mix and acid fertiliser. Unfortunately, it is giving up. What am I doing wrong? 

I have a Daphne bush that is having a major sulk. Is there is a product that can re-energise it? The leaves are not yellow and none are falling off, but they look a tad limp and not glossy. It has been in its current position now for 6 months.

I have a beautiful camellia in my garden. Can I transfer this lovely plant to a pot? It is medium size and about 5-6 years old. Also, can you plant rhododendron in a pot?

I fed my camellia plants a few weeks ago with the right food. I have three side by side. One has dropped all the leaves and budding up again. What would have caused that?

How do I turn my hydrangeas blue?  Is there anything I can add to the soil?

I was shifting a small rhododendron and I noticed that grass grub were nestling in the roots. Can grass grub damage rhododendron roots and if so, what is the best treatment for them?

My hydrangeas have only 1 or 2 flowers on them this year, and have been late to flower. They are 4 year old plants and I haven’t treated them differently than other years. Any advice?

I have a hydrangea bush that has been blooming beautifully this summer. Once the flowers die off, when is the best time to prune it?

In March, I moved to a property with a hedge of several young camellia trees showing signs of neglect. How do I return them to health and encourage flowering? Should I do anything special for them in winter?

Some hydrangeas I picked and placed in a vase have started to grow roots and have new leaf buds. Can these be planted into the garden to grow into bushes?

My neighbour has a tree bearing the most magnificent large pink Camellia blooms. Would it be feasible to plant the seed pods from this tree to germinate replicas of the parent tree?

My hydrangeas never flowered well and the leaves were stunted as well this year! What is the problem?

Last winter I planted two Daphne Bushes each side of my entrance. One has grown beautifully and is almost in flower while the other is pale and has hardly grown. What is the reason for this?

My two Fragrant Gardenia plants in pots at my front door had lots of leaves last year, some went brown on the edges but I did not get any flowers on either plant. Can you help?