Camellias have bloomed together for first time ever.
By dorjac
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This severe winter has allowed my Camellias to all bloom at the same time. Usually the very old one on the left is over by now. The one in the corner, snuggled up, is next. The middle two do their own thing, if they feel like it. I nearly lost a small one last summer, due to dryness …saved by intensive care! The white one is usually very firmly last ,with a lot less blooms this year, but they are larger. I do not know names of these shrubs. The youngest one, in front of the oldest is fantastic this year, as it it two colour, which I have not seen so far. Usually they all trickle into flower over the winter in a set order. So camellias seem to thrive on a severe winter……. It can be one of those shrubs we think might to be a bit tender. They do need attentive care in a small garden, to ward off dryness and fertilise, if the leaves turn yellow. In a proper woodland or shrub setting, in the right soil they need less attention.
This photo has never been possible before in the 24 years we have lived here. The camellia on the left would been covered in shrivelled flowers. It can be in bloom at Christmas and right through the winter.
This is the oldest camellia. It has one that was once in a pot in front of it. It is blooming really well this year.
This camellia really likes to be snuggled, up in the shade, in a cosy corner. It gives no problems, does not yellow the leaves. Just needs to be kept trimmed back a bit
A single flower on the previously potted shrub. First time it has had any white in the flowers. It tends to yellow the leaves very easily. So needs extra ericaceous fertiliser.
This white camellia is a lovely one, with some pink on some petals. It tolerates a very restricted position next to a laburnum, which can get very dry. It got very dry last summer during the crucial budding up time. Watering difficult due to its restricted position, so fewer flowers…but larger ones.
The camellias in the middle are more difficult. This one makes huge flowers and hangs them down and then drops some of them. It is amazing how different plants are in such a small area. So I took a photo including blue sky from underneath. The one next to it nearly died due to dryness. It does not like the laburnum.
2 Apr, 2010
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They look beautiful Dorjac!
2 Apr, 2010
Fabulous plants Dorjac...Great blog
2 Apr, 2010
lovely varieties you have there. mine is still in tight bud.
2 Apr, 2010
Your camellias are looking wonderful Dorjac.
This year it seems various flowers and shrubs are going to bloom later than usual...
2 Apr, 2010
Those are so beautiful D. It seems like a bonus to have them together, but is that what you wanted? Our pink one has never bloomed yet, probably because its had a nomadic life so far. 1st move because the morning sun was just on it. Then out of a big pot because it didn't look happy, then last year into the front among the conifers with a little baby white one1 year old which flowered last year. So we're hoping.
I wish our's could look like your's.
2 Apr, 2010
mine are still tight buds too and interestingly all my daffs are out at the same tim , usually we have a sucsession ,ithink the earlies are late and the lates early ( or something like that :o)
2 Apr, 2010
Mine is in tight bud at the moment but there are more on it than the previous four years its been in the ground, It is, however, getting rather a battering from the wind and driving rain at the moment. Hope it eventually flowers as good as yours.
2 Apr, 2010
We live on the edge of London in Essex. In The Garden Magazine of the RHS it did say that spring flowers might all come together Pam. Seems for me they were right. It just goes to show, in a small garden, conditions can be so variable and from garden to garden too, that you never can tell. Yes Mad the camellia that was in a pot has put up with a lot of moving. So it gets fussed over and this year it has come good,after a long time waiting!! The oldest one nearly got thrown out, as it was all mixed up with an old unkempt pyrocantha. Another secret I forgot to mention is that I put most of the fallen leaves in amongst the shrubs....trying to imitate what would happen in a woodland setting..... they all disapear eventually and the blackbirds just love to root about....I put them back. So it goes on.
2 Apr, 2010
Lovely blog and photos
2 Apr, 2010
Well they do look healthy as I said before, when we lived in Middx Camelias didn't do so well. Good idea putting the leaves back under giving them a natural habitat. Pam D.
2 Apr, 2010
Beautiful shrubs, Dorjac, lovely to see. I have three camellias, a pink which I've had for nearly 17 years (it moved house with me), a while one (mothers day pressie from youngest daughter several years ago) which I am thinking of moving so it is in a more sheltered spot, and finally a little neglected one bought last year from the local garden centre, which is pink/white. I do hope they all continue to grow like yours. Thanks for sharing.
2 Apr, 2010
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They look very healthy Dorjac. Are you in the South West?
2 Apr, 2010