I just don't know what to think. I've been growing these Podophyllum pleianthum in this stock tank for some, oh, seven years now. They've always looked great. That is until this year.
They came up like normal, then I noticed a few of them had the odd white veining—then they just stopped growing, and the edges started to brown (the strange tadpole-like shapes on the soil are blooms from the neighbor's tree).
Here's a photo from last September, they'd been through a rough stretch of heat, smoke (from wildfires) and more sun than previous years, since the neighbors had a few trees removed. Yet they still looked fabulous!
This year, not so much. They should be full size by now but they just refuse to grow. I did put some fresh mulch on them back in early March. I wonder if that's to blame?
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