Bedding plants not lasting.

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Hi all, Thanks for all your advice so far regarding bedding feature made from sleepers, I had all the hard work done, Sleepers cut to size approx 24 iches, Buried 4 inches, Srewed them all together and now have a snake shaped wall 18 inches high with slabbing effect on top. This looked well when we filled it with earth taken from the back when rotavating it, The earth filled it about 6 inches high and filled in the rest with multi purpose compost. The problem is we planted flowers and shrubs three weeks ago at some cost and some are wilting and some are dead already, Does anyone have any idea what we are doing wrong, The plants were suggested to us at the local gardening centre, My wife reckons we should remove the surviving plants and the earth and compost and start off with stones for drainage, Any help would be appreciated.
 
Generally how wet or dry is the soil, how deep is the bed, and what's directly under it? I.e. "hard" impermeable soil/rock.

You can test if the soil is the problem by placing a plant in the same soil, but in a pot and see how it does. Was the rotivated soil used top soil?
 
main thing that new plants need when put in the ground is water.... we may get a lot of rain, but depending on the position of these plants, they might not get enough (or maybe too much)... Have you fed the plants / flowers since planting?

When you took the earth from the back, was anything used to kill off the grass from that soil before it was rotavated? Even going back a few months...

It's not unusual to have a few plants in a large area not take... but seems like there is a lot that are dying off.
 
Its 18 inches deep Horus and the bedding base is just earth, I built it on the garden as opposed to concrete, Jazz, Yes they are watered every night and my wife is using plant feed, The earth that I used to fill the first 6 inches came from what I had over and above after turning grass in the back. I used roundup to kill off the grass about 2 months ago.
 
Strange all the same, unless "roundup" still exists in the soil... Have a read of http://petercoppin.com/factsheets/pests/plantdie.pdf - might shed some light on things...

I came back the other day to find my bedding plants (well the flowers of them) eaten... I'm blaming the rabbits ... usually have around 10 of them in the garden in the morning...
 
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