Been looking online at Pieris photos and they all look quite dark leaved, at least the ones I can find - this one has always been light and the ones I see everywhere are too - so wondering if my photo wasn't good enough to identify it properly? I think I'll get a photo of mature ones in my neighbours garden to make sure I'm barking up the right tree!
The growing conditions in gardens can cause variations. Follow wise Verdun's advice re epsom salts and mulching and this time next year , your plant will have lovely dark green healthy leaves too.
Thanks for all the advice! - after many years of pot plants, having inherited a large established and rather overgrown garden, I need all the help I can get!
It won't help that it's been in a pot for a long time. Once it gets a bit of nourishment in spring and can spread it's wings a bit - it'll be fine kbgreen. They do change colour a bit with the season and their different stages, as Verdun has said. They grow like weeds up here - I was just admiring the one along the road which is about ten feet. It's sporting some young, fresh green growth just now because it thinks it's spring
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks Fairygirl they seem to do really well here as well. The garden in our new house is lovely, but has SO many perennials and not many shrubs and evergreens - I want to redress the balance somewhat, to give it some winter structure. (Plus, in the lazy side, tidying up huge borders of perennials for winter has been hugely time consuming...)
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Been looking online at Pieris photos and they all look quite dark leaved, at least the ones I can find - this one has always been light and the ones I see everywhere are too - so wondering if my photo wasn't good enough to identify it properly? I think I'll get a photo of mature ones in my neighbours garden to make sure I'm barking up the right tree!
relax keen, it HAS been identified correctly
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The growing conditions in gardens can cause variations. Follow wise Verdun's advice re epsom salts and mulching and this time next year , your plant will have lovely dark green healthy leaves too.
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It won't help that it's been in a pot for a long time. Once it gets a bit of nourishment in spring and can spread it's wings a bit - it'll be fine kbgreen. They do change colour a bit with the season and their different stages, as Verdun has said. They grow like weeds up here - I was just admiring the one along the road which is about ten feet. It's sporting some young, fresh green growth just now because it thinks it's spring
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ah right - having just sneaked a peek at a label on a neighbour's plant, it seems that the ones I'm seeing everywhere is actually Choisya ternata Sundance - http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/choisya-ternata-sundance--lich-pbr/classid.824/
So my plant isn't the same as the one I actually want, then!.... they look so similar to my untrained eye!