Ericaceous Compost | Tool Shed | Thompson & Morgan

A garden essential for acid-loving plants! Camellias, Blueberries, and Rhododendrons, to name but a few, will all thank you for this compost when you pot them up. Ericaceous compost has a low, acid pH which allows acid-loving plants to absorb iron and other nutrients properly. In ordinary compost with a higher pH, these vital nutrients become 'locked up' in the soil creating weak, spindly growth and yellowing foliage in ericaceous plants. This balanced compost provides the perfect low pH conditions for excellent root development and strong, healthy growth of all acid-loving plants including: Ferns Blechnum Fruits Blueberry Cranberry Lemon Lime Lingonberry Orange Raspberry Perennials Cornus canadensis Japanese Iris (Iris ensata) Lily of The Valley (Convallaria majalis) Shrubs Amelanchier lamarkii Azalea Camelia Enkinathus Fothergilla Gardenia Gaultheria Hamamelis Heather (Erica / Calluna) Hydrangea (to create blue blooms) Itea Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) Leucothoe Pieris Physocarpus Rhododendron Skimmia Stachyurus Trees Abies Arbutus Eucryphia Magnolia Nyssa Picea