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Moving an established camelia

Karen.divinetherapiesKaren.divinetherapies Posts: 12
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Hi there
What is the best way to move an established camelia. It's about 6 feet tall and beautiful but in the way of a proposed patio and needs to move by end of October can it go in a pot or is it better resited in the ground. Thankyou Karen 

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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    The best way takes about a year but you don't have that option. Dig it up with as large a rootball as possible and plant it in its new spot in the ground immediately. Dig the new hole first before attempting to uproot your plant. I would give it a hard prune reducing it by half but you might not like that idea. Water well over the next year.
  • Karen.divinetherapiesKaren.divinetherapies Posts: 12
    Thankyou 🙂 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I would agree - and cutting back makes establishment easier. It just means you sacrifice flowers for a year, but if you have to move a shrub, it's a small price to pay.  :)
    If you don't have soft water, use rain water for extra watering if you have long periods  of dry weather at this time of year. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Karen.divinetherapiesKaren.divinetherapies Posts: 12
    Thankyou it will be moved to a damper shader location on the other side of the stream so hopefully be ok
  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 347
    edited October 2021
    Camelias can put up with a lot. 
    I like to provide photographs which prove my point which might be of help.

    We had three here, about fifteen years ago, which were getting too big. The blooms were a bit messy when they started to fall.




    So I binned two and pruned the third down to about  a couple of feet and dug it up, around this time of the year.

    We thought something like this would open up the garden more.



    It had quite a good rootball.

    It's been here since then in  the side border behind the Japanese lantern, I usually keep  it a  bit smaller than this size.



    Not that bothered about the blooms as the leaves are very attractive.



    Now if it had been any larger, there might have been a problem, I've no idea. I thought at the size to which I reduced it, it would be successful and I was prepared for it to regrow which didn't take long.

  • Karen.divinetherapiesKaren.divinetherapies Posts: 12
    That's brilliant news thankyou and your garden looks lovely 😍 
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