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Camellia is dying 😩 looking for help urgently 🙏🏼

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    How much fertiliser did you give it? 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think the feeding could be a big part of the problem @Dovefromabove, especially on a very small shrub.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That's what I was wondering @Fairygirl ... I also wondered if the feed was a liquid and had got on the leaves ... possibly on a sunny day?

    I don't grow them (wrong sort of soil) but my parents did.  One in particuar was simply splendid.  A North-facing site, sheltered from the morning sun, in peaty soil next to the waterbutt overflow so it hardly ever needed watering, and got fed once a year about now with a handful of granular feed around the root area.  It bloomed beautifully and grew into a really large shrub.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I expect a liquid food could damage the foliage @Dovefromabove, but I've never used it on them. They really need nothing if the soil's in good nick, and isn't alkaline.
    Grow like weeds here because the conditions suit them. They get huge when they're happy.  :)
    The biggest problem is duff weather when the flowers are about to open, or when they are open. It can ravage them very quickly. You need other things around for the rest of the year too, as the flowers don't last long. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The OP’s camellia looks as though something’s been on the leaves,  the brown is only on the high spots.

    Same here with the camellia,  @Fairygirl. That’s why we got rid of the white one,  had to pick axe it out in the end,  the flowers were always brown and soggy. 
    Soils right, weather’s not.   Got a couple of red ones, they seem better. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Indeed @Lyn. I had a nice one in a previous garden, but you were lucky if you got enjoy the flowers once in four or five years. Even this year, with a very quiet winter and early spring, all the ones round here looked dire after a couple of weeks because of frosts.  :/
    The reds do seem to be a bit tougher though. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thing the really good one my parents had was Donation. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I had Donation @Dovefromabove - back in the day when I quite liked pale pink flowers  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh @Fairygirl  🤔 … perhaps it wasn’t Donation … Ma said it was,  but IIRC it was a lovely deep crimson …

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Ah - not Donation then.  It's a pale pink  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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