Camellias are popular, long-lived, evergreen shrubs (or small trees) renowned for their glossy foliage and stunning, rose-like blooms that appear from fall to spring. As staples of Southern gardens, they bloom in white, pink, and red, thriving in acidic, well-draining soil and partial shade in zones 6-10.
If you visited me before on my old blog, you probably know how much I love flowers. I've updated my header with a floral graphic similar to part of my old blog's header. What do you think?
Here in central Florida, we are in zone 9B which is semi-tropical. Our two camellia bushes get buds in December and bloom late January, February, and into March. I look forward to the short time of flowers in winter. The freezes we had two weeks ago, made the buds brown and the flowers too. Now we are back to beautiful white flowers.
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It irritated me when I lost a week of flowers, but all is well now. Hopefully, we don't get more freezes coming south.
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I hope your freezes are over, Carol. I remember my mom talking about the fragrance of camelias. I don't think I've ever smelled one.
ReplyDeleteI have allergies & don't smell them, but they're beautiful!
DeleteBeautiful camellias! Our one bush bloomed in late December and now we don't have any more buds. Our crotons took a beating in that freeze.
ReplyDeleteI was happy to see more buds, but that's because our bushes bloom later in Feb. Don't you live in S Florida? I can understand your missing your flowers. Crotons are definitely pure tropical and can really lose a lot of foliage in a freeze. I once had one totally die from low temperatures.
DeleteCamelias were my Mother's favorite flower! They smell so good.
ReplyDelete...Carol, I love camellias and a few years ago I planted one for zone 6 and it died after 2 years. I enjoyed yours!
ReplyDeleteLovely.
ReplyDeleteCamelias almost look like Gardenias to me. I love flowers also. We have two things in common flowers and photography.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful camelia blooms!
ReplyDeleteYep, you are my Florida flower blogger!! You do a great job at it!!
ReplyDeleteI have one bush in a pot and it blooms but very few and I had it for a few years.
ReplyDeleteWorth a Thousand Words
All of my flowering bushes burned up with 5 hours at 28 degrees. Heres hoping they come back.
ReplyDeleteHere at the condo, one of the tropicals is deader than a door nail after that night of 28 degrees. The 2 camellias lost buds and flowers, but more grew. Try cutting back dead bush even to the ground, and sometimes the root is still alive and will grow. That happened with tropical hibiscus to me.
DeleteSuch elegant blooms!
ReplyDeleteI'm another Northerner who tried to grow a camellia and failed. I'm so happy to see your frosts only provided a setback. I like your flower header, too. Welcome to Blogspot-I hope you like it. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteCamellias and palm trees! Looks like paradise to me. What a shame you had such cold weather and the plants were threatened. Surely, that was an anomaly?
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