Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING 2015 DOUBLE TAKE, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Many, many years ago--I had a nice, red Rhodo by my front steps.
Then--one year--all the GREEN leaves started rolling up and dropping.
I called around--asked a lot of questions (I think i was still on GW then)
and the concnsus was that it was phytophthora and I had to dig up and throw away
my Rhodo--AND--get rid of the soil beneath it---AND that I should never plant another
Rhodo in that spot.
I don't remember what came next--maybe the spot sat empty for a while?
Maybe I planted something else in there? But--eventually--in 2000-- I bought and
planted my "Bob Hope" Camellia in there--which still lives and blooms there.

I have another issue--as I cannot grow petunias any more--they get that dead, sprawly look
and the roots rot and I have to pull them up.
This is in the same areas that I used to plant Impatiens and they got that Mildew
disease. Seems the petunias can catch it as well. The ones in window boxes do OK.

These are not all in the same beds. The 1st two pics are in the same bed
on my kitchen side. i KNOW I always had Imps there.
In pic. #3--this is in my small front bed. Don't think I grew Imps there. Bummer!

Any thoughts? Gita

edited to say this was taken in July of 2013.

This message was edited Apr 10, 2015 2:50 PM