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Camellia

This house was originally built in early 70's and this camellia was planted close to the front porch (probably) as a cute little plant. Way too close to the house and we have to keep it trimmed like this to be able to walk by. It is loaded with flowers every year and in early spring it is a focal point. flowers can be very different from each other from very white to pink or stripy red and white to almost red. Quite interesting plant.



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Great shape I can see its full of blooms do you use a hedge trimmer.

1 May, 2015

 

Yes, every year after the blooms are gone my DH takes a hedge trimmer to it.

2 May, 2015

 

Absolutely marvellous. On the top of it, I like its shape. Unfortunately, I have 2 camellias, 4 years old and still they look like one small branch :-(

2 May, 2015

 

Tank you, I ll have to try it.

2 May, 2015

 

This one is probably 40 years old . Do you have any blooms on yours Katarina? I have one 3 years old and it have not bloomed yet.

It responds to hedge trimming well Thrupennybit. We do it usually in early June.

2 May, 2015

 

No, as I said in some previous comments, mine did not bloom yet.

2 May, 2015

 

Thank you Medowland, some plants just have to be kept under control.

4 May, 2015

 

It looks wonderful! It loves your moist climate. There's some large ones in my neighborhood on the north-side of homes. They still get sun-burned every year...sometimes very badly. They still flower from: Nov-April.

6 May, 2015

 

I do not know when this starts to bloom because we are out of country for winter but it is always in full boom when we get back in April. Still blooming now. I do not think it would be a good plant for hot and dry weather. We had some hail today. First time since we've lived here. So unusual for this time of the year.

6 May, 2015

 

I'm sure the climate there is much better for Camellia than here in San Diego.

That big low off your coast is heading south to here. It's going to bring us cooler weather and a chance of a few shower...which is rare for this time of year. We need any showers we can get, though. The drought here is getting worse...not sure what California will do when the reservoirs completely dry up. California is in uncharted territory.

6 May, 2015

 

It is not good situation at the present but the weather is so crazy everywhere in the recent years we never know what will happen from year to year. You might be flooded next year :-) Our friends e-mailed us from Mexico that it was raining there last week. April/May are the driest months there.... it never rains in these two months (until this year)

6 May, 2015

 

Like you said: the weather is absolutely crazy everywhere!
Today is was cool and windy with the chance of showers later tonight and tomorrow. It really is unheard of us to have rain this time of year; however, it's not so typical to have middle of summer heat in the middle of winter, also. :>/

8 May, 2015

 

Rains are always better then droughts. People are just not able to use energy of water in a right way, as they waste money for less important projects. The Danube had lot of floods in the past, now when we have dam system in Slovakia, during floods in Germany, Austria and Hungary-across which Danube flows - we have only higher level of underground waters.

8 May, 2015

 

Katarina:

"Rains are always better then droughts". You're so right!

It sounds like you get a lot of rain, where you live. We typically receive very little rain here in San Diego during our short rainy season. Our rainy season is from: Dec - March. The other months are very dry. The monsoonal flow from July - Sept., sometimes we may receive a few light showers...we typically just get high humidity with very hot temps.

11 May, 2015



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