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What is happening the other side of that fence?? Are the neighbours friends??
I did think of that, but it's both sides of the garden. I don't think they're that unpopular!
To me from the picture it looks as if the there has been standing water as the soil has a slight crusting look to it.
Rather weirdly this has happened to the four I put in my own garden and have noticed a bit of frost damage on one in a customers garden, I had put my failures down to frost but only a guess...
Well Tim,
I don't know what weather you had in your area but if that was here, I'd guess it was a protracted long wet winter followed by severe late burst of frost.They are not in a wind tunnel of sorts by chance?. Diggging around the soil and doing a bucket test will tell you if it's waterlogged soil. Could well be compacted mind.. exploratory spade work time!!😀
Best
Paul
Thanks folks, I'll do some investigating with a spade when I can get there, and let you know if I find anything interesting/ conclusive.
Could I ask when you planted them? My experience is that Trachelospermum can be very slow growing in the first few years. I had one that did virtually nothing for about 3-4 years, didn't even get as big as the one in your photo. I gave up on it. Then suddenly it took off, for no apparent reason, and now it's positively rampant!
I've had exactly the same with 12 large ones I planted last summer. They are alive but showing little sign of any flower buds forming and the leaves are very pale looking despite a feed. In another garden, two I planted 3 years ago on a sunny wall are also not looking so good, and another gardener I know has experienced similar problems with some of hers
I just looked at the ones in my garden and they have very tiny new shoots growing but all seems very slow....
Probably best to check the soil; they don't like it too wet neither do the other plants you've mentioned. I would suggest the customer waits to see what happens for a few months and doesn't over water. Equally, if we get a really dry patch the customer needs to water to keep them ticking over. I'm the plants will settle down [fingers crossed]