Yuletide / George Adams

This camellia is aptly named . A week from Christmas , and it is blooming.
The freezes we had last week didn`t really effect it.

Still Blooming / George Adams

So far this has been a great Fall for camellias. some light frosts, but no early hard freezes. So I have had no flower damage what so ever !

Here it is , the first week of December and my Jean May camellia is completely going off !

Here are some photos

Daikagura / George Adams

These flowers are SO Bright in color. That my camera can`t reproduce them correctly. It actually comes out way too saturated, so I had to tone the photo down in a photo program.

I have two of these plants. This one is solid in color, where the other one ( which is not blooming) , is pink and white.

Bridget`s Fall Camellias / Bridget Decandido

Bridget sent some photos of the camellias she has blooming now.......Here they are .

Double Rainbow / George Adams

I Love This Plant !

It starts out more pink. But as the flower ages, it becomes more white in the center, yet the outside remains bright pink. So that it has a bi-color effect. I look forward to the day , that the plant is big and covered with flowers.

Midnight Lover / Jim Jeffrey

Unknown White / Richard Schiller

Jim says... Note pink shading on edges of bloom

Jean May / George Adams

Autumn Sunrise / George Adams

Pruning / by George Adams

Well, the Fall Camellia season is just around the corner. But I wanted to share some photos of a large camellia that I pruned this spring. It is a Mathotiana which was about 10 ft tall. It was starting to get too top heavy and not looking very attractive. So after one of Matt Hunter`s talks. Where he explained that you can cut back a large camellia quite far. I gave it a try.

I probably took about 1/3 of the plant away. But now at the end of the growing season, it looks much fuller and has an overall better shape. You can see how it has put out a lot of new growth on the bottom part of the plant, which was starting to get thin............That is just what I was hoping for

Photos from April Meeting

Here are some photos from the meeting at the end of April

Dixie Knight / by George Adams

Can`t believe that it is the middle of May and I still have camellia flowers blooming .

Dixie Knight has a really nice deep red color with bright white variegation.

Donkelarii / by George Adams

Donkelarii is a Great Variety! Really cool marbleized coloration

Bridget`s Garden

Here are the camellias blooming in Bridget Decandido`s garden. From top to bottom as follows: April Blush, Magnoleaflora, Lady Vanisittart, and Unknown White

Carter`s Sunburst / by George Adams

Carter`s Sunburst is a beautiful flower............Interestingly , this is one of the few camellias in my yard that has some full sized flowers this year. But it also has some that were reduced by the cold of the past winter. So it has some big and also some little flowers on it this year

Nuccio`s Pearl / by George Adams

Last year it didn`t really bloom............but this year it has lots of flowers. But they are small

It is in a location that gets early morning winter sun. So the foliage is damaged, but not terribly

Mathotiana / by George Adams

Finally.......I think the camellias are going to bloom. Mathotiana is always one of the first. It is late. but as you can see in the photo, it is going to be covered with flowers.

Weird / by George Adams

Normally my camellias are in full bloom by now.Yet only Korean Fire has opened up so far. Camellias usually are opening at the same time as the Forsythia around here...........I have seen Forsythia blooming for more than a week now. Yet my camellias refuse to open up. What is going on? It has been cooler than normal, especially the beginning of spring. But it hasn`t been that cold, the temperatures arent too cold for camellias to flower. It hasn`t dropped below freezing since the end of March. What are they scared of ? The flower buds are not dead, They keep getting larger and showing color, but they just will not open.............Weird

Korean Fire / by George Adams

Korean Fire is one of my favorites. For it`s simplicity, back to the roots of a species camellia. The glowing red color and the beautiful vigorous growth habit.

Things are starting out slow this year , as most of March and still in April, it has been mostly below normal , temperature wise. Although the Korean fire plants in my yard started to open up in later March. It has only been one or two flowers, and they are of reduced size because of all the cold this winter.