This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Transplanting camellias has always made me nervous. After more than two decades of growing them here in Zone 8b, I’ve learned that even a healthy plant can sulk for a full season after being moved. … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Last February, I watched helplessly as a hard freeze crept in overnight and torched the open blooms on my ‘Professor Charles S. Sargent’ Japonica. The flowers had been absolutely perfect — deep crimson, fully double, … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. My camellia hedge has been the pride of my backyard for nearly two decades. However, somewhere around year fifteen, it stopped being manageable and started being a problem. What began as a tidy row of … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Last November, I walked out to check on my camellias and noticed something that made my stomach drop. A white, waxy crust had built up along the stems of my oldest Japonica — ‘Kramer’s Supreme,’ … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Last spring, I hit a wall I hadn’t expected after two decades of growing camellias. My raised beds — which I’d built specifically for acid-loving plants — started showing signs of pH drift. Leaves on … Read more
