when can I move my Camillia
Nottinghamshire,
United Kingdom
we moved house 2 years ago and brought our camillia with us,the soil is more clay than the original and it doesn't seem to be thriving where it is, would moving it help?
13 Mar, 2009
I don't know if they mind being moved. It probably does mind your more clay-ey soil though. Dress it with ericaceous compost, definitely. When we moved here there was (is) a beautiful red camellia near the house, and previous gardeners had put a discreet kind of upright cage of rabbit/chicken wire around it. Originally I thought this was for support, but now I think it is also so that they could just top up this one area with the right compost for acid-loving plants.
Someone else on the site can probably advise you on feeding, though I don't feed ours and it seems happy.
14 Mar, 2009