Tropicals & Tender Perennials: What is causing?, 1 by Dedda

Dedda wrote:
Vee,
I feel the same about trees and their demise at the hands of greedy developers.The only reason they cut down everything, it's cheaper to have it clear cut before starting.
Anywho, have you heard of the paulownia tree(royal empress)? It can grow up to 10 feet a year, beautiful flowers too.

Marilyn,
The osmocote fertilizers do not release enough or fast enough to make a diff.
I had lousy growth: small leaves, tons of leaf drop this spring-summer,of course no flowers
even with a double dose of time released. I started to feed twice a week with the MG 1 tbs p/g
and finally got buds after 4 weeks.First thing I noticed the leaves greened up, got bigger, stayed put after just a week.
Picture is of my oldest shrub, flowers opened after 6 weeks of switching fertilizer