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TIPS ON GROWING CAMELLIA PLANTS IN YOUR GARDEN

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TIPS ON GROWING CAMELLIA PLANTS IN YOUR GARDEN

By Alan Down
 Posted February 15, 2020
 In Container gardening, Plant Focus, Trees and Shrubs
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Camellia japonica ‘Lady Vansittart’

Growing Camellia plants in your garden is really quite easy.

Seeing Camellia plants in full bloom in a Cornish garden is truly unforgettable.
It is one of the great spectacles of British gardens! But there is no reason why
we couldn’t have a piece of that spectacle in our own gardens.

 

The blooms of Camellias are soft and sumptuous looking and can be damaged by
cold winds or through thawing too quickly after frost. But the plant itself is
quite hardy.

 

 

 

AVOIDING FROSTED FLOWERS

So let’s address the flower issue. These are really early flowering shrubs with
some varieties even blooming in November. However the vast majority are in
flower from January through until late April, just when we can get some nasty
sharp frosts!

Camellia x williamsii ‘Debbie’

The answer is to think carefully about where you are going to be growing 
Camellias plants in your garden and above all avoid planting in frost pockets.

You should also avoid planting them where the sun shines on them first thing in
the morning. This is because those soft blooms will actually tolerate frost but
if only they have a chance to thaw out slowly.

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT IF YOUR GARDEN IS COLD?

A red flowered Camellia japonica trained on a house wall

If your patch is halfway up a mountain or in a particularly cold area, then
consider planting a Camellia against a north, south or west facing wall but
never ever an east facing one!

 

 

 

GROWING CAMELLIA PLANTS IN CONTAINERS

Of course, Camellia plants are superb in containers and this is a good way of
growing Camellia plants in the garden.

Start them off in a 10 – 15 litre pot and gradually move to a large pot as they
get older. As with all slower growing plants, it is never a good idea to put a
small plant into a huge pot. If you do put a small plant in a big pot, the soil
will go sour before the plant can fill it with roots.

Most Camellias will ultimately need a half barrel size pot of 35-40 litres. Oak
half barrels [with added drainage holes] filled with lime free compost are
ideal. Lime free compost is often sold as Ericaceous compost.

 

ADD OTHER PLANTS TO THE MIX

Camellia x williamsii ‘Donation’ with azalea, dwarf Rhododendron and Pieris in
large container

The alternative is to plant other plants with it in a large container to utilise
the root space and the fertiliser in the compost. I would recommend planting a
Pieris Forest Flame, a small leaved Rhododendron or evergreen azalea, some
Calluna to provide summer colour and of course some spring flowering dwarf
bulbs.

Camellia garden plants are lumped in with so called ‘lime hating plants’ such as
Rhododendrons, Pieris and Azaleas.

But Camellia are the most tolerant of a little lime in the soil of all of these
plants. Just like the others, they too have a shallow root system that can be
regularly given a low pH mulch of pine bark or something similar. Unlike the
others, Camellias do have quite a high feed requirement. This is especially when
actively growing and when forming the next year’s flower buds in June and July.
Fortunately there are specific liquid feeds available such as Maxicrop with
Sequestrene but good old tomato food will do!

When choosing a plant, look for plenty of flower buds by all means, but look
also for a bushy well branched compact plant that has dark green glossy leaves.

Oh and don’t forget Camellia plants make wonderful gifts too! Let’s share the
love of growing Camellia plants in the garden!

There is more good background reading on Camellias on the Royal Horticultural
Society’s website here.

If you really catch the bug and want to collect these beautiful Camellias in
your garden you might like to join the International Camellia Society.

Camellia japonica ‘Les Jury’

Camellia japonica ‘Ave Maria’

 

 

Not lime hating – in fact lime loving – Clematis can grow well in containers.
I’ve written a blog about it here.

 

Camellias, Ericaceous compost, lime free compost, Maxicrop, Sequestrene

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