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Camelia
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Could someone please tell me what to do with my Camelia plant, which has been planted in our garden now for several years. However, due to the severe winter conditions this year, it has lost all its leaves. Should I prune it, and if so how?
Thanks, in advance to all who answer.
primula
Could someone please tell me what to do with my Camelia plant, which has been planted in our garden now for several years. However, due to the severe winter conditions this year, it has lost all its leaves. Should I prune it, and if so how?
Thanks, in advance to all who answer.
primula
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My Camelia I was talking about (in full flower now) was moved with as big a rootball as possible, and watered well into its new place several years ago. It was 4 feet fan-trained at the time. It's now around 8 feet. I moved it in late spring after flowering. This seems the best time to trim or move. Just keep a good rootball if possible. Prepare soil mixed well with Ericaceous , and add a few large iron nails in the top area of rootball. That's an old trick, but will keep Hydrangeas blue!
Camelias won't flower well the year following heavy trimming, so keep trimming to minimum or do gradually.
Hope that helps! : )
My Camelia I was talking about (in full flower now) was moved with as big a rootball as possible, and watered well into its new place several years ago. It was 4 feet fan-trained at the time. It's now around 8 feet. I moved it in late spring after flowering. This seems the best time to trim or move. Just keep a good rootball if possible. Prepare soil mixed well with Ericaceous , and add a few large iron nails in the top area of rootball. That's an old trick, but will keep Hydrangeas blue!
Camelias won't flower well the year following heavy trimming, so keep trimming to minimum or do gradually.
Hope that helps! : )
My camella is flowering profusely at the moment so I think yours has gone, sorry primula.
Tilly mine lives in a large pot as we have a patio garden, we report it every couple of years when it has finished flowering. Also as it finishes we give it a handful of speciialist granules which you scatter on the surface (sorry I don't know the name, the tub is in the shed at the other end of the gaden!). We prune it lightly during the summer if odd branches seem to be going their own way.
Tilly mine lives in a large pot as we have a patio garden, we report it every couple of years when it has finished flowering. Also as it finishes we give it a handful of speciialist granules which you scatter on the surface (sorry I don't know the name, the tub is in the shed at the other end of the gaden!). We prune it lightly during the summer if odd branches seem to be going their own way.
What you talking about? Gardeners have been using these ideas for decades!
Big nails, I said ... like 6" nails! Get one in your finger? .. yep ... right.
Don't try to bring Health and Safety into it ... otherwise we will have thornless roses, crap lawnmowers, and nothing that can be remotely described as poisonous growing in our gardens.
Big nails, I said ... like 6" nails! Get one in your finger? .. yep ... right.
Don't try to bring Health and Safety into it ... otherwise we will have thornless roses, crap lawnmowers, and nothing that can be remotely described as poisonous growing in our gardens.