Re: Pine needles

Hi Pamela--

--If your soil is alkaline and your plants mediterranean it's probably not a good idea to mulch them with pine needles. Maybe what you see is not drying but the effect of the rising acidity on alkaline loving plants.  In Corfu I only use pine mulch on my potted hydrangeas, gardenias, camelias, etc. On the ground, only around Lavandula stoechas, though it doesn't seem to help much--they're still pretty sorry looking.

Cali

Corfu, Greece

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