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Hello I hope you're all enjoying some time in the garden! Here in Sussex it's not that warm but at least not raining! (Yet)
I'm tackling my shady borders. Only been here a year and there are some plants in very odd places. These two shrubs are planted in almost complete shade against a fence and the one on the left (yellowish one) in particular doesn't seem very happy.
Neither have grown at at all really in any of the seasons. My question is what are they and should I move them? I have some sunny borders and some part shade borders maybe they would be happier in one of those?
Any help greatly appreciated!
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Why did I say "it's not raining"??? Now hailing!!!
We've got hailstorms forecast - must go out and fleece the fig!
The shrub on the right looks like Euonymus - possibly Euonymus fortunei Emerald Gaiety - however it's got a branch that's showing 'reversion' growing without it's variegation. That needs cutting right back to where the reversion starts otherwise it'll outgrow the rest of the shrub and you'll just end up with a boring green bush.
The other could be a very unhappy camellia - what's your soil like, acid or alkaline? If it's alkaline that could be the problem as camellias need acid soil. Or it could be suffering from some other nutrient deficiency such as magnesium - info here http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/problem-solving/camellias-leaves-turning-yellow/2169.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you! I have a camellia and a Rhodo growing in the front garden happily but perhaps soil acidity can be different in different parts of the garden? I'll do a test.
Either way I think I will move them because I do have related plants to those two in other parts of the garden where they are much happier!!
I think that is a Euonymus but not a fortunei.
E. japonicus maybe, it looks pretty good to me
I see a honeysuckle as well, and some primulas of some sort.
I also see a creeping buttercup
I wouldn't struggle with that yellowed one, it look far gone
In the sticks near Peterborough
It could be almost anything from where I'm sitting I can't zoom those inamges on this ancient work system. The chloritic one ont he left could be a rhody and the one on the right could be Euonymous or a pyacantha etc? Wild stabs in the dark for me until I get home on my Mac
. Better photos would help though. Sorry not a criticism of your photograhy techniques just my frustration with 20th century OS.
I too think the left-hand one is a rhodo. Try planting it into ericaceous soil (make the hole big enough so that there is about 6" of ericaceous compost around the rootball and add some rhodo fertilizer. You could also give it a spray of Epsom salts, 1 tsp to 1 gallon of water.