Show us your Camellias 2015

Since I was little, the Camellia has been one of my favourite flowers. I have early memories of seeing them in dark, dull gardens in Winter making such an incredible statement of colour and their shiny leaves always fascinated me - and still do.
I thought I would show you a couple of mine and I do hope you will add yours to this thread,
Jenny

This is Camellia Magnoliiflora , a variety of over 200 years and a strong but compact grower. Shame that these early blooms have frost damage but there are loads of buds to come over the next month or so:




And this is St Ewe. She has flowered before Christmas before now but not this year,


and this white one, already in the garden when we moved in 5 years ago must have been is a healthy,robust grower that I have to prune so that we can walk down the path. The leaf is more of a light green. I hope the weather will spare her large blooms otherwise they look like brown paper bags as they do not drop and I feel obliged to remove them and there can be quite a lot of them:

 

Hiya Jenny
There's one in the garden that's full of buds. When it flowers, I'll post a pic

 

I just have 2 camellias but they're not in bloom yet. Some nice fat buds on one of them though so hopefully won't be long. Yours are lovely Jenny

 

Bit early for mine, I dont normally see anything until end March, early April but heres ones
from last year.

 

Lovely specimens, Jenny (particularly like the first one, Camellia Magnoliiflora )
Camellia is on my "Wish List".
NCFCcrazy - that's a pretty colour

 

I've got a number of Camellias and all except one have nice fat buds on. I have one bloom so far (on 'Debutante') but it's frost damaged so will take pics when I have some pretty ones.

 

The two Camellias (above) are liking this sunny weather this morning

shame this one has a sooty mould problem


Jenny

 

Top one is looking glorious, Jenny

How will you treat the mould problem on the second one?

 

The "book" says you can wash off each leaf individually ( I cannot reach them all ) or use Provado as a treatment spray. It's an on going problem that returns regularly but it doesn't seem to debilitate the shrub itself. I make sure it doesn't run dry in Summer and it has B,F & B in Spring and a Camellia feed in July when the new flower buds start to develop,
Jenny

 

I love camellias and plan to put one or two in the side garden at the new place

 

I may be teaching you to suck eggs, but ensure they are against a west facing wall or fence to protect frosted blooms against the early morning sun.

 

Yep front garden is west facing so it's a perfect plant.

 

First bloom has opened



Some nice buds so hopefully more soon



By rights I shouldn't have a thriving, glossy plant with loads of buds and flowers as it is planted in totally the wrong place. It's in an exposed area down by the river and gets sun from every direction but it seems happy there, along with another camellia, a rhododendron and some azaleas.