In our garden there are 2 plants blooming fine, but there is 1 plant which has about 5 flowers and the rest of the pods are bare. My question is how can i get the whole plant to bloom? Conditions must be ok or the 5 flowers wouldn't appear in the first place.
Some history: this plant was lush and tall and bloomed beautifully. We had landscaping done and following this, the plant seemed to wither...leaves drying and no flowers...ultimately it was dying. We chopped down the dying part of the tree and there was a fresh lush growth at the bottom, which we left. So the whole plant is now approx one fifth the size it was. The soil is reasonably acidic (camelias growing well on it) and the rhodo is fed with the suitable food at the suitable time.
Now 4 years on, the thodo has gown considerably, has lush green leaves, but no real seed buds form......a few have, meaning it is capable...but the majority just open up and reveal bare buds.
So my question is what can i do?
Is it just that the plant is now considered immature and i just have to wait. Or is there someone thing i can do??
The rhodo is such a focal point of our garden that I'd love to to flower. I don't really want to give up, remove it and replace with something else.