Texas Gardening: TX Mtn Laurel not blooming, know why?, 0 by Texas_Doodlebug

Texas_Doodlebug wrote:
This is a picture of mine in 2004 after about a year or two in the ground. I was told that they are true natives and like to be stressed a little. So I don't baby mine by watering it and I don't provide it with ANY fertilizer of ar all. I was also told that the fertilizer in some way makes the plant more attractive to those nasty genista catepillars that attack it each year. Don't understand it all but it seems to be good advice so far.