Pacific Northwest Gardening: Rhody help, please, 1 by outtamygourd

outtamygourd wrote:
I planted this rhody last year, don't remember exactly when but probably mid-summer. It had the buds on it then but never bloomed. The plant is exactly the same as it was when I bought it. The buds remain and I'm wondering if there is something special I should do now to encourage it to bloom this year. I figured since they grow wild on the roadside around here, all I had to do was stick it in the ground and by the same time the following year it would be taller than my house! Apparently, I was wrong?!?!?! Should I feed it something special (the guy at Sunny Farms Nursery said Alaska Morbloom, 0-10-10 would be great...bought it, used it, nothing). Help?