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What's happening to my Fatsia Japonica?
lornathorpe
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I've had this Fatsia Japonica for just over two years, and it is flowering for the first time. Until this spring it was a healthy plant with dark, glossy leaves ... it was growing fast so I repotted it. Because of the growth, the top leaves were in full sunshine at midday and when the leaves started turning yellow I moved it to a new spot under the trees, where the front side gets some sunshine late afternoon. Since then it has continued to lose what look like fairly healthy leaves all summer, although when I say fairly healthy, you can see from the pictures they're not as dark and glossy as they should be. Overnight this leaf fell off. The middle picture shows what the plant was like in May this year, before I moved it. Any thoughts as to the problem? 
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I could imagine FJ might overwhelm pots pretty quickly owing to the vigour of them.
I think that you've moved it more into shade was a good idea as some I've seen in sun do yellow and shrivel.
It's normal for them to drop old foliage too, and grow new ones. All evergreens do that
Shade is always better too, as you've found
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...