Hello, HelloPanda, :) Did you bake garden soil before potting with it? Bagged soils are 'supposed' to be sterilized, something yard soil isn't. Yard soil contains insects, disease, and who-knows-what-else, but nothing good. As far as potted plants go. Garden soil needs to be baked at 375 for 45 minutes..Soil stinks when baked.. Neanthe Bella's are slow-growing. I don't believe in over-potting, but when roots fill a pot the plant should be placed in a larger container. Are roots sticking out of drainage holes? How fast does soil dry? If soil dries a day after it's watered, most likely it's root=bound. If pot is large, 'more than 2" larger than rootball,' repotting isn't needed. Soil pH for NB should be about 6.0. Slightly acidic. You mentioned soil being alkaline. If the palm were mine, I'd remove it from its pot. Check roots. Discard old soil. If rootball is tight-fitting, palm would be repotted in 1-2 size larger container, with drainage holes, in fresh, semi, well-draining soil. Last, leaves would be showered and soil watered thoroughly..until water seeps out of drainage holes. Oh, before watering, I'd add slow-release, Palm fertilizer pellets and Superthrive. Then palm would be set in a brightly lit window. East is fine, or a few feet from west or south.. No, it's not good that new growth is dying. There are many reasons new growth dies. Could be because of soil or over-watering. Palms don't like wet feet, especially during winter months. Moisture in the air is one thing, 'humidity,' but not wet soil. Good luck, Toni

We went with Blockbuster online because at the time it was less expensive than Netflix at the time. Now that they've raised their rates to the same as Netflix I don't mind since I can return movies to the store on the way to work and they get counted as checked in a day or two faster. Also, I get coupons for a couple of "free" store rentals each month. Still, being summer I'm not renting as many. Mostly I'm getting old comedy series, e.g. Kids in the Hall and Strangers With Candy and special interest documentaries like The God Who Wasn't There and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, cable stuff I don't get like Penn & Teller's BS and of course a lot of mainstream movies. I agree about Walk the Line. Quite good but seemed much like Ray. (We tend to get Academy Award nominees/winners for the few months after the ceremonies) And as for 28 Days Later, that was fun to watch with my epidemiologist. We laughed our butts off. Atrophying biddies. That's funny! What is it about fussy, ugly flowers that draws that crowd?

Also older than ... and glad to be above rather than under the ... dirt. Anyone remember 78 mm. ... no, that was r.p.m. ... records? And the needle being on a circular disk that one lifted off of the record and put up, over and back to be held in place above the arm that swung back and forth over the record but didn't move up or down? Our "Party line" phone was a big brown wooden box on the wall with a metal thing like a tulip sticking out of the front into which you talked, and a line with a black tube on the end that hung on a yoke sticking out of the side of the phone, that lifted when you took the receiver off to listen, which connected the phone to the line, by making the contacts with the large batteries inside. If you wanted to call some other person on your line, after listening to see whether the line was busy, you turned a crank on the right side to make the double bells on the front of the phone ring, in a code of short and long rings, which rang in everyone else's phone on the line, and the ones whose code it was answered ... sometimes others did, as well (almost always remaining silent while doing so). If you wanted to call someone on another party line, you pushed a black button on the left side of the phone and turned the aforementioned crank on the right side, which silenced all of the bells on your line and sent a signal to the operator on the central switchboard and she connected you to the other line and pushed a button or turned a crank to ring the code of the person to whom you wanted to talk. ole joyfuelled ... who liked eating at the dining room table ... in the large kitchen

Tuff Stuff is quite tough but if its root system got cut too much when packaging to fit into the pot, it may take more time to rebuild it and grow faster. Some hydrangeas will go slow for 1-2 years and take off afterwards. Mine was a Mathilda Gutges. Extremely doubtful that it is getting "too little" sun with 4 hrs of sun. Even 1-2 hours would still be fine. Better check that it does not get uneven watering because the 'dry times' could also cause the plant to abort the blooms and brown them out. And make sure it is not planted too deep. Water the soil (never the leaves) very early in the mornings; say 1 gallon of water per watering (1.5g in the summer) and keep it well mulched so the moisture does not quickly evaporate (3-4" up to the drip line). If you water the leaves and blooms, you might end up with fungal infections like Gray Mold (which browns out the blooms) or powdery mildew.