Planted spring of 2012
Daily drip irrigation
Afternoon sun
Purchased from Portland Nursery
This was the first plant to visibly suffer from a lack of water in the summer. I noticed and turned on my drip irrigation timer, which I had left off in the spring. Flowers turned to small berries which promptly dried up and fell off. Leaves crisped and turned half black in the summer heat. The plant had been in a shade house at Portland Nursery. This plant is an AGM winner, and listed as a full sun plant by the RHS.
I'll leave it in afternoon sun this year. The new leaves are smaller, perhaps an adaptation to the higher light level. I'll make sure it has plenty of mulch to keep the roots cool, and if it doesn't do well this year, it goes to the east side of the house where it will have some protection from afternoon sun.
A very pretty small evergreen plant.
Jan. 1, 2013 On the right, the semi-evergreen Sunshine Blue blueberry on the left.
May 1, 2013
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