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In some cases the plants will adapt to different types of soil. We have red clay as our standard soil around here and some plants do quite well in it. However, in all of our plantings we will always amend the soil and till in organics. It does make a big difference in how the plants will grow over the years.
In many of our landscape installs, the plants grew almost beyond their stated mature sizes and we have had to transplant some of them to other areas of the yard. We always design for mature shrub height & width and allow for room between plants at maturity. I can tell a big difference between proper soil prep and lack of soil prep.
Especially in residential installs, you don't want to cut corners & hope that the plants will adapt so amend the soil as needed.
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