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Hello, I'm sad to say that my first post to this wonderful forum is one that's reporting a very poorly plant in my garden. I bought some small Choisya ternata (Mexican Orange) to hopefully grow into an informal screen/border, but as you can see from the picture below, they're not very happy plants at all. The new growth is dissapointing in vigour, and has now gone pale yellow with brown spots. The older foliage below is still quite healthy looking, so I've dug one out of the ground and placed in a pot filled with a healthy mix of multi-purpose compost, sand (2:1 ratio) and a bit of fish blood & bone fertilizer. The ground where they were placed is quite heavy clay, but I thought I'd dug in enough compost well in advance. What makes me think I've not done such a good job is that the roots are still quite compact. I've gently teased them out for the re-potting. The soild PH is on the slightly acidic side of neutral. It gets full
sun all day, and is low with a fence that shield much of any wind. I
thought that would be perfect for most plants to be honest... my only
thoughts are that the sub-soil being so clay-ey may be causing draining
problems. With all that info, and looking at the picture below, I'm just looking for general advice really - or if anybody recognises what's wrong? Does it sound like I'm doing the right thing? Once revived, would you replant, albeit after improving the soil condition again? Thanks in anticipation for any help anybody may be able to offer.
Best, Stella-ta (as in mine's a Stella, Ta!)  
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