Hi Julianna - Of COURSE I'm interested in what you're growing! This "bright shade" situation is most interesting and will require experimenting. I started this thread LESS than a month ago and already I see a difference in the number of hours the back of my balconies get sun. On the same token, the sun spots for the items hanging off the balcony are also lengthening. Right now, due to the containers I used for most of my succulents being bulky, they've been placed to the back of my patio where they get a brightness all day long (bright shade, as you called it) but direct sun is for but an hour plus a day? I have to wait and see how these do moving forward... This is balcony 1 -- the one with full sun up front. I bought a bunch of those white balcony pot hanging thingamagics -- and it's pretty useful. It's smaller than balcony 2, but deeper. What's not shown is that further in to the left, you have two shelves full of plants--where most of the succulents are as well as my infamous gardenia, which Purple has been helping me with, haha. This was taken moments ago and today is a bit stormy and cloudy but it's still bright out there at 3:30 pm. This is balcony 2. It's significantly wider with about 3-4 feet MORE to the left than is shown here; that part is obviously full shade. The remainder is all less full sun than balcony 1 and in the afternoon, it quickly goes into no sun as to the right of this balcony, the building juts out with an overhang to the lobby area below. That seems to block out the sun instantly. Unlike you, my area requires me to bring in virtually nothing as we rarely hit 40* and if a plant's lowest tolerance is 50* (which is basically our entire winter) -- then either I don't get it, or it evolves quickly, haha. Thank God, because my house is full enough with houseplants -- I need outside plants to come in like I need a hole in the head. I was browsing some ferns yesterday! Are they hard to grow? I have a Venus Maidenhair here inside, but I don't believe I've ever had ferns in my yard. In the past when I had homes, I've usually had full sun and have much, much less experience with shade plants. I'm messing with the idea of hostas and I'm definitely getting some coleus and begonias, but on balcony 2 - where most of my shade gardening would be -- you can see that the depth of the balcony is minimal; putting large pots out there means no walking area. This puts a damper in my idea of creating cascading containers w/ spillers, etc. I might have room for... uh, ONE. After all of this, I'm of the mindset to move back to a house, haha. I find myself driving around town and looking at homes to figure out, "Is that yard facing south? No, wait...east?" It's sad, really!! Your post is missing photos. I'd love to see!!!!!!!!!!!! -Grace.

If you have poor drainage and have just transplanted, you are in a loose-loose situation, if you water them to prevent transplant shock, you drown the roots because of the poor drainage. If you don't water them you get transplant shock. The sun is just an aggravating factor. The poor drainage is the problem. They are dying in the place where they are now, so I can't imagine that moving stress would be any worse than leaving them and probably better. Make sure you move them to a spot with excellent drainage and keep them watered but not wet. Georgia is famous for its red clay. If you have clay soil, use a raised bed to insure that you have excellent drainage. Here is a link that might be useful: How to care for rhododendrons and azaleas.

I highly recommed in your zone you plant them in mostly shade. I am zone 5 and those short periods of hot humid stretches we get here they wilt fast. They have to be kept watered almost daily. I just moved all 6 of mine from full sun to part sun/shade. That really slowed their growth! None of them are over 4 inches now :( So I doubt they will flower and hope they all make it.

Since there are horses on the bags of alfalfa pellets, I suspect the size of the pellets is about the size of your thumb. Those are also called horse cubes. What you want are the rabbit feed sized. Here is a link to feed stores near Orlando. Call around and ask for rabbit chow or alfalfa pellets the same size as rabbit chow. Another place to find corn flour, not the same as meal, but equally effective, is at a grocery store catering to Hispanic shoppers. They carry corn flour for tortillas in 25 pound bags. You do not need both. I was giving you some alternatives. Since you have a Tractor Supply nearby, a couple other choices are DuMOR 16% Layer Crumbles and whatever floating catfish food they have. There is one called Trophy and another. Those have 35% conspicuously marked on the label.