Hi, Kathryn, 鈥淩hodos鈥 are pretty resilient but occasionally they get sick. The wilt or browning that you describe could be caused by several things, such as poor drainage (is this plant more vulnerable to pooling water than the others?), summer drought (oddly enough, too little water is about as damaging as too much), accumulated fertilizer that did not wash into the soil (see poor drainage above), being planted too deep (on the face of it this may not sound like your plant…but if water runoff or the like has carried soil/silt or mulch to the plant and that built up on the roots, it is as if the plant is buried too deeply; the roots should be near the surface of the soil/ground)
It sounds like your rhodo is in recovery, Perhaps you can help it along by checking on these points.
Hi, Kathryn, 鈥淩hodos鈥 are pretty resilient but occasionally they get sick. The wilt or browning that you describe could be caused by several things, such as poor drainage (is this plant more vulnerable to pooling water than the others?), summer drought (oddly enough, too little water is about as damaging as too much), accumulated fertilizer that did not wash into the soil (see poor drainage above), being planted too deep (on the face of it this may not sound like your plant…but if water runoff or the like has carried soil/silt or mulch to the plant and that built up on the roots, it is as if the plant is buried too deeply; the roots should be near the surface of the soil/ground)
It sounds like your rhodo is in recovery, Perhaps you can help it along by checking on these points.
Thanks for asking! Hope this helps鈥