gardening blog How I Feed Camellias With Great Success

I was a garden designer & professional gardener for many years. Camellias are very popular plants & I took over many accounts with chlorotic & sickly looking shrubs. I want to share with you how I fed Camellias with great success & brought them back to health.

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Camellias are prone to chlorosis (which simply means yellowing of the leaves which is due to a number of causes) in areas with heavy &/or alkaline soil. Both of these reduce the uptake of nitrogen to the plant & it becomes deficient. Besides being planted in a soil that’s slightly acidic, camellias like their soil to be well drained with a good portion of humus & organic matter.

I worked at a nursery in Berkeley part time over 15 years ago & was up in the lunchroom one day where I stumbled upon Nuccio’s Nurseries newsletter where they recommended feeding Camellias with cottonseed meal. Because they are regarded as the top grower of camellias in our country & have been around since 1935, I took attention. I bought a box of cottonseed meal that afternoon to try on some of my client’s plants.

Camellias are popular landscape plants the world over. Like any plants, they are much better suited to certain climate zones and soil pHs (this is the measure of the acidity vs the alkalinity by the way). Your camellias may never need feeding, but if they do, cottonseed meal and compost with rich order matter will make them as happy as can be.

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gardening blog How I Feed Camellias With Great Success
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