Specialty Gardening: Mystery Gardenia - did I ruin it?, 0 by PudgyMudpies

PudgyMudpies wrote:
Do you have it in sun or shade? I tried for years to grow a gardenia with no success. It would turn yellow and the leaves would all fall off and in desperation I would give it to my mom who would have it recovered and huge by the next summer. She said it was where I was trying to grow it, that they cannot handle sun which completely contradicted what the tags said. So last year I gave it one last try, put it on the east side of the house that has a shadecloth roof, and that thing just took off! It is a big old monster now, flushes of blooms all the time and all I do is water it and throw a handful of acid loving osmocote in the pot every 3-4 months. So what was a little 1 gal plant, is now this monster that hits me almost chest high! I told DH this morning that I really did need to trim it some but there are so many buds that I don't want to give them up!
So maybe location could be the problem for yours too?