Re: flower drop. We took out a very large camellia (it came with the house) because the dropped flowers looked like fried eggs, white petals with a yellow centre, which turned brown and mushy. Up the road where the pavement narrows because the council moved a pelican crossing you either step on flowers or scrabble past on the kerb.
If I was buying a Camellia I think I would check this out, personally I think they look much better when there are new buds opening and no browning flowers remaining....
I said: When choosing a camellia, leaves are important. Japonica has bigger deeper green and glossier leaves than x williamsii.
My "Gloire de Nantes" was chosen after a tour of Bodnant Gardens in April. The flower I liked, the length of season I liked and also the leaves. Many Japonicas seem to go yellow and start to loose their leaves right in the middle of peak flowering time. Gloire de Nante was the best for not doing this.
Rather than just an impulse buy, a visit to a Camellia collection is well worthwhile.
The "Gloire de Nantes" dead flowers drop off quite quickly leaving calyces and seedheads behind. My plant is trained against a wall; I remove most seedheads when I give it an annual trim, others I remove as and when over the summer.
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."
A Lady, yes noble, on GW way back, probably from Caerhays, pronounced "camellia" as in "smell," the presenter persisted with difficulty to pronounce it "meal".
I have the same difficulty with pætent, as in pay.
I once had a meeting with a pair of lawyers, one British the other American, they pronounced it patent, short a (pat), whilst I pronounced it as per the leather. I tried to persist with my way but it was very stressful, after quite a while I found myself using the short a. Next time, I tried for longer. At my peak stress, they both suddenly started saying pætent. It works. It's a good game to play.
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."
A few more have opened. Don't know the names of any of these either, sorry, though both the pink ones have varigated leaves.
The disadvantage of many white flowers is than they die ugly. This is worse if they stay on the plant rather than dropping. (Although this dropping is a tidy-up issue.)
Can anyone recommend a good white camellia that avoids this problem?
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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Up the road where the pavement narrows because the council moved a pelican crossing you either step on flowers or scrabble past on the kerb.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I've got three in pots but not a single one is blossoming yet…
I have the same difficulty with pætent, as in pay.
I once had a meeting with a pair of lawyers, one British the other American, they pronounced it patent, short a (pat), whilst I pronounced it as per the leather. I tried to persist with my way but it was very stressful, after quite a while I found myself using the short a. Next time, I tried for longer. At my peak stress, they both suddenly started saying pætent. It works. It's a good game to play.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Can anyone recommend a good white camellia that avoids this problem?
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
JC Williams
When fresher and the stamens are golden, it looks even better.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Botanical drawings as wall art? Gorgeous, @SYinUSA. Where do you get stuff like that?