Recently in Re-potting Category

What job that turned out to be!
Getting hold of this stuff locally is impossible. The local garden centres, diy outlets, nurseries do not stock the stuff. Quite why is beyond me as they have almost everything else you could imagine.
So I had to fall back onto the Internet

Last night I spent an hour or so tracking down a supply of Hydroleca or expanded clay granules to use in my next round of repotting my Japanese Maples.
Those of you who read this blog regularly will realise there is nothing scientific in this. I am just trying to find out what is the best compost to use for potted Japanese Maples to thrive in.

I have been toying with the idea of trying to grow a Japanese Maple or three almost hydroponically just to see what the growth rate would be. 

This time of year is usually the time that you will encounter Maple leaf burn. This always occurs first at the very tips of the leaves and these take on parchment colour.
This phenomenon is indicative of a water transport or water storage problem which can be rectified in many ways.