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I'm so glad that I found your forum, I hope that someone will be able to help. At the end of May this year I was given an Ilex bonsai, Ilex was all it said on the plant tag. From Christmas until the end of May it was kept in a very light conservatory, one with a glass roof, it did well. I brought it home and put it at the back of a room in permanent but light shade, it did well for 6 weeks or so then around mid-July it started to lose its leaves, they went brown and fell, whole branches became bare. Before this it had even flowered and put out new shoots, some with what look like abnormally large leaves. A new shoot had appeared right at the base but now that has died too.
Whist I was taking the last two attached photos just now I noticed for the very first time a tiny icon on the plant tag indicating that this is an outdoor plant. In my naivety I had assumed that all 名媛直播 were indoor plants because of their fragility. In addition this plant had been kept indoors for months before when it was in a conservatory and had thrived. I live on the south coast of England and we frequently have very windy wet weather, as it is today, would something as fragile as this really survive outside?. I had thought that I was over or under watering but is the cause simply that it should be outdoors?. If it was outdoors natural overwatering would be guaranteed. I was also given a Ficus Ginseng which is still doing very nicely indoors.
The first photo was taken outside but was only there for that purpose, you can see how well it was doing just a few weeks ago. The last two were taken with a flash and therefore make the surroundings appear a little lighter than they actually are. I've always wanted to keep 名媛直播 and I'm very upset that I might be losing one of my first two already. Your help would be much appreciated,
Cockney
I'm so glad that I found your forum, I hope that someone will be able to help. At the end of May this year I was given an Ilex bonsai, Ilex was all it said on the plant tag. From Christmas until the end of May it was kept in a very light conservatory, one with a glass roof, it did well. I brought it home and put it at the back of a room in permanent but light shade, it did well for 6 weeks or so then around mid-July it started to lose its leaves, they went brown and fell, whole branches became bare. Before this it had even flowered and put out new shoots, some with what look like abnormally large leaves. A new shoot had appeared right at the base but now that has died too.
Whist I was taking the last two attached photos just now I noticed for the very first time a tiny icon on the plant tag indicating that this is an outdoor plant. In my naivety I had assumed that all 名媛直播 were indoor plants because of their fragility. In addition this plant had been kept indoors for months before when it was in a conservatory and had thrived. I live on the south coast of England and we frequently have very windy wet weather, as it is today, would something as fragile as this really survive outside?. I had thought that I was over or under watering but is the cause simply that it should be outdoors?. If it was outdoors natural overwatering would be guaranteed. I was also given a Ficus Ginseng which is still doing very nicely indoors.
The first photo was taken outside but was only there for that purpose, you can see how well it was doing just a few weeks ago. The last two were taken with a flash and therefore make the surroundings appear a little lighter than they actually are. I've always wanted to keep 名媛直播 and I'm very upset that I might be losing one of my first two already. Your help would be much appreciated,
Cockney
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If the soil is good then it will never be overwatered, outside is where it must be, that is the main problem. \The wire is doing no good at all. 名媛直播 is not the plant it is the way that it is styled. No trees belong inside, if they are not hardy then they should be in a greenhouse. Put it outside in semi shade to start as it has been too shaded up to now. Water when the soil is almost dry and soak not dribble
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Many thanks m5eaygeoff, it has now moved outside where I hope that it will return to its former glory.
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