Maybe I'm too spoilt, I have both. What I call Mountain Ash come up like weeds. I select the ones I want tp keep.
" Green blob" is not how I describe camelias. I see them as everygreen 12month structure for the garden. The leaves are dark and glossy. Debbie is not my favourite flower colour, but the flowers last fro months. Others I have last from late December to early June, and recover afier a frost.
My camellias provide plenty of food for wildlife. In spring they are crowded with aphids, herded by ants. And have a rich diversity of scale insects. Lady birds are there too, eating something.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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" Green blob" is not how I describe camelias. I see them as everygreen 12month structure for the garden. The leaves are dark and glossy. Debbie is not my favourite flower colour, but the flowers last fro months. Others I have last from late December to early June, and recover afier a frost.
My camellias provide plenty of food for wildlife. In spring they are crowded with aphids, herded by ants. And have a rich diversity of scale insects. Lady birds are there too, eating something.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."