Wow a lot of good advice some from my own state and all the way from Sweden.
It is mulched but not heavily. It gets full sun from early afternoon till dusk. Has been overly hot for this time of with all the rain and clouds keeping our early summer very mild.
I grow daylilys and other common flowers so this new shrub is a different animal for me. I heard it was hybridized in honor of Queen Elizabeth's golden jubilee thus the name.
Williams comments give me heart as i figure if it survives Swedish winters it will surly do good here in our sometimes harsh ones.
Next wilt i will hold off on the water and that exploratory hole sounds good too. Who knows i may be digging in soup. Lol.
