Q: I have an idea for camellia hedges around my back garden, because they’re evergreen and bloom early. Can you suggest what kinds of camellias might work best as hedges? A: If your back garden ...

Question. Our camellia hedge is blooming nicely but is thin at the base. Should we cut it back when the blooming stops or wait until spring to do the pruning? Answer. Enjoy the blooms now and ...

Since camellias are my first passion, I like to incorporate them into my garden spaces in as many ways as I can. Not only as standalone small trees, but also as plantings that we don’t usually ...

Photo by Peter Gammon Did I really need yet another camellia? One that no grower in the United States carried? Let alone a whole slew of them to make a hedge? Not that our garden is large ...

These perennial evergreen shrubs have gorgeous blooms in a range of hues. Camellia flowers are incredibly beautiful, and add ...

Few shrubs can provide as much pleasure with their beautiful blooms and dark green foliage as the camellia sasanqua. The lovely flowers are enjoyable, but so is the handsome and shiny dark-green ...

Camellia leaves are quite big and you want to avoid the ugliness of sliced foliage if you can. The most important thing in a situation such as this will be the preparation of the soil. The hedge ...

They like well-drained acidic soil that has been amended with compost and will take full shade but they will also take more sun than camellia japonicas. Because most shrubs bloom in the spring and ...

These camellia shrubs really have seen better days. They should have far more flowers on them at this time of the year. The problem is that they are quite old shrubs, but also it's that grand old ...