Re: Japanese Maple - feeding

"Emery Davis" <laeraton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Topref wrote:
>> We have quite a large Japanese Maple but this spring it isn't
flouri****ng 
>> as well as it has in the past. Is there anything I can add to the soil
in 
>> the form of nutrients that will give it a boost?
>
> It's probably unhappy about all the water it got last year.
>
> Your best bet is 40 grams of osmocote hydrangea granules spread around
> the drip line.  Some bone meal in the same area would be OK too.
>
> Depending on whether your "Japanese Maple" is Acer palmatum or Acer 
> japoni***,
> you could water in a light liquid feed:  1/4 strength for the former,
1/2 
> strength for
> the latter.
>
> Whatever you do don't give it a lot of water, or a lot of nitrogen feed.
>
> -E

Thank You