Erica Heathers from Africa

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Muffin76 Grand Rapids, MN Jun 16, 2007

I bought an Erica Heather in the grocery store. It was so beautiful with little pink bead-like flowers. It needs transplanting. I realize they like an acidic soil, but what about dirt? When you all transplant, what is your combination for something like this. The container it came in has a different looking soil to it. Almost like a black hard soil instead of a fluffed up soil with white beads. Ideas?
Thank you in advance.

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WeeNel Ayrshire Scotland, United Kingdom Jun 18, 2007

Hi Muffin, the black lumpy soil in your pot was peat, this is an acidic soil the erica (heather) likes, the little white beads are an added engredient called perlite, it is made from little polistirene balls and because the soil is so rough and hard, it helps to keep some air in the soil so it dont go solid, it dont harm the plants, when you transplant it, get a small bag of peat, maybe you have some of these balls in a packing container, add some to the peat and mix them in, or buy some, they are like the filling you get in a beenbag that you sit on at home, then repot the erica, water it well and care for it as you have done, it will stop flowering eventually, when it does, cut off the flowering shoots (the soft bits at the top only, not the woody stems) then it will bush out and flower again next year, Good Luck,
WeeNel.

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