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Plants dying

PinkheartPinkheart Posts: 70
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Help! Random houseplants are dying. They’re in different rooms & haven’t been moved or overwatered. Nothing has changed in their upkeep. Temperatures vary but are the same as every year & there’s nothing extreme. 
The most heartbreaking are my two jasmines. They were about 10-15 years old & flowered well every new year. Last year they went mad flowering….for 7+ months!! Tbh, that worried me as I’d heard of plants having a last hurrah if they think they’re threatened. 
There’s also an avocado…all the leaves dropped off.,
A shiso that was growing so beautifully…..then I was away for a couple of days. When I returned, all the leaves had dropped off.
a eucalyptus-smelling geranium that’s just fading. 
I’ve done everything I can think of.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Had you or anyone else used your watering can or whatever for something else? There may have been a residue left in the can.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Plants do have a finite lifetime so the jasmines might just have come to a natural end.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited 31 January
    When we’re they last repotted in fresh compost?

    what’s the feeding regime?

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





  • PinkheartPinkheart Posts: 70
    B3……definitely nothing else used in the watering can.
    jennyj…..this is what I feared for the jasmines…& sadly no cuttings ‘took’. However the other plants were only about a year old.
    Dove……repotted the jasmines when they started flagging. Others were potted within last year or more recently. Only fed the jasmines & geranium….used tomato feed. 


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