Box hedge compost

[sirmione]

Can I have a bit of advice please? Was clearly not paying attention yesterday in the garden centre & I picked up a 40l sack of compost specifically for planting box hedge plants in containers (had no idea such a thing existed).
Can I use it instead for planting the cyclamen plants in containers - or will it murder them?

[shovetheholly]

Blimey, I've never heard of box compost either! I'm at a loss to know why that would be needed either, since Box is really happy in a range of soils from quite lime-based ones to quite acidic and is generally quite tough (though susceptible to blight, as I am finding to my cost).

My guess is that the compost may have quite a coarse texture - maybe with bark or coir added - which might make it less suitable for something like cyclamen, but really not sure? If I'm wrong about that, and the texture is quite fine, I would give it a go -I can't see why there would be anything in it that cyclamen would loathe?? However, others may have more experience of this and be able to offer you better advice.

[bookbook]

Not heard of this either - could it be a version of John Innes no 3 ?
If so, its not really a problem, as long as you don't put seedlings in it.

[sirmione]

A belated thanks for the advice. I went ahead and shoved the cyclamens in & so far so good. I live in France, so maybe special box compost is a "thing" here....