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Thankyou for that great read ...I am always surprised when folk get a shock at the poor little leaves burning off after growing in these sheltered conditions. The same applies to plants you buy in sheltered situations in the Nursery. Home they go and are planted into full sun and the poor gardener wonders why they sometimes even drop dead from shock.Any protected and sheltered growth growth that is suddenly shoved into full sun will suffer. your article is well timed ...and very important.
chrissy
I guess the thing to remember is that plants can be remarkably adaptable, as long as change happens s-l-o-w-l-y. If you change their environment suddenly, they may not be able to cope!
I lost a lot of plants last year and the year before because I didn't know about hardening off the plants. I had some really wonderful ones, bleeding hearts and passion fruit, a Japanese eggplant and pear tomato just to name a few. All dead now because of my ignorance, but that won't happen again.
I've lost plants, too... have learned to be careful with ones purchased at nurseries, also, as they are not necessarily fully hardened off when you buy them.
