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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    "And by the way rhododendrons need peat for propagation. "

    No - they don't.  :)

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • pauty141-aoxdmNGpauty141-aoxdmNG Posts: 9
    rhododendrons will always need peat during propagation, always, obviously you h=don't propagate
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    pauty141-aoxdmNG said:
    rhododendrons will always need peat during propagation, always, obviously you h=don't propagate
    sigh....
    I have done - several times
    Bye bye.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    I'm no botanist, but it would seem to me a bit weird that rhododendrons had evolved to self-propagate only in the presence of peat...
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Indeed @borgadr. Layering is by far the easiest method. I can only assume the OP has never heard of that either  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2022
    Rhododendrons grow wild in woodland on the sandy loam of coastal east Anglia … lots of leafmold but not a peat bog in sight.  They layer themselves and rampage vigorously through the Suffolk woodland. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    You can grow seeds quite happily without any compost, never mind peat containing compost.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    pauty141-aoxdmNG said:
    peat ... will store CO2 when used in the garden 
    No, it won't. It stores carbon when it's wet, but releases that carbon when it's dried out
    pauty141-aoxdmNG said:
    ... and the plants grown in it will store CO2, 
    Not as much as the peat if it's left in the bog

    Peatlands store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests (unep.org)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • izzy8izzy8 Posts: 147
    Just wondering why  if peat regenerates quicker than it is farmed why we import so much of it 
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