Not a fancy place, not a nursery. Slug eggs? Osmocote?

It's Osmocote.

Leona

Hi Mehetabelle - the scent must be heavenly. Another plant to add to my never ending wish list.

Kasie

Kasie....you can grow gardenia and jasmine. I'm sure I'd trade Daphne for either of those. (though I am going to try a gardenia next year in my garden!)

~Chills

Hi Chills - sounds great.

Kasie

Thanks for the messages. My repotted Daphne, sans 'pearls,' is doing GGGGGreat! Putting out lots of new leaves, even lower down on the stem -- already looking like a bush. Not bad for $7.

Speaking of gardenia, I don't know why the message thread of suicidal gardenia is so popular. I stuck some of the pruned tips in soil last summer and now I have about 6 little gardenias (Veitchii).

Probably because you're not trying to move a potted gardenia in and out of the house year after year hoping to trick it into believing that it doesn't live in a cold climate.

I've got one, a Mystery Gardenia, that I have had for 3 years. Each year it looks great until just after the first of the year and then it starts browning out from the bottom up. As long as I get it outside before all the leaves die, it makes a complete come back (though this one has not bloomed for me yet). I had another that managed the move for 3 years (and bloomed), but one year it browned right to the top and (even though the stem still scratched green) it died.

Mehetabelle...the pearls were depleated Osmocote, a time release fertilizer encased in a degradable shell. I like to pop them, personally.

~Chills