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| Kim from the USA | The blooms will brown if you touch them, that might be the cause. Also, gardenias love fertilizer- get the kind made for acid-loving plants-use it every 4-6 weeks. Mist with water often-they love a very humid environment. |
| Grow Green from the USA | The success to growing perfect gardenias is to never let them dry out that means water every other day, followed by acid treatment. They should bloom in a month I have one and it is covered in blooms up to 7 to ten blooms at one time now I am trying my hands at the mandevilla. |
| Frances from the USA | On leggy older plants, cut back 1/3 of foliage just BEFORE their Spring growth spurt, around March 1st. Prune anytime LIGHTLY for shape, but remember to prune AFTER a flush of blooms so you won't miss out on any of those fragrant flowers. |
| Carol from the USA | Rooting a gardenia cutting is very easy. Just cut off about a 6 inch piece maybe smaller and put it in a jar of water. Leave it in there until it is rooted. It doesn't take very long. When it is rooted good put it in a pot of soil. Thats all there is to it.. |
| Roxanne from the USA | The reason why gardenia leaves turn yellow may be because this plant likes an acid soil, so you might try putting pine needles around it. I also throw my coffee grinds under the plant (not right at stem), and there is an iron additive you can get if the leaves are still yellow after the above (look at nursery centers). |
| Dixie from the USA | Yellowing leaves, if not from watering problems, and especially on broadleave evergreens, can be treated with sulfur. It works fast! |
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