{"id":366,"date":"2010-11-01T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=366"},"modified":"2010-11-04T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:21:03","slug":"fall-hardy-camellias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/11\/01\/fall-hardy-camellias\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Camellias Re-Awaken the Autumn Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_0944.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-369 alignright\" title=\"'Cleopatra'\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_0944-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_0941.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-368 aligncenter\" title=\"'Winter's Star'\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_0941-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Winter Star&#8217; camellia (<strong>pale pink- photo on left<\/strong>) is the first camellia to bloom in the Conlon garden\u00a0this fall season. My\u00a08 year-old camellia has 50 or more flowers currently opened and promises to continue blooming\u00a0through most of November. Other hardy fall blooming cultivars are heavily budded and will open\u00a0 thru\u00a0mid- December, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later the cultivar &#8216;Cleopatra&#8217; (<strong>rose pink-<\/strong> <strong>photo on right<\/strong>) opens and it\u00a0has bloomed reliably\u00a0during its\u00a08 year tenure. Camellia experts rate &#8216;Cleopatra&#8217; as not reliably flower bud hardy below &#8211; 5\u00b0 F.\u00a0Open camellia flowers are\u00a0more susceptible to an evening cold snap than\u00a0tightly closed buds.<\/p>\n<p>Camellia culture is similar to azaleas and rhododendrons. Plant them in half day sunlight (morning exposure preferred) and in an acidic, well-drained soil which has been generously amended with organic matter. Camellias\u00a0are susceptible to\u00a0very few disease and insect pests.\u00a0Irrigate newly planted camellias weekly\u00a0during extremely dry summer periods and protect them against the harsh winter winds.<\/p>\n<p>Prune most camellias\u00a0when the spring flowering period is over in late April -early May and before the spring growth flush has begun.\u00a0This includes\u00a0the fall bloomers. Primarily\u00a0prune shrubs to limit their height\u00a0\/ spread and to remove dead\u00a0\/ damaged branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Winter Star&#8217; camellia (pale pink- photo on left) is the first camellia to bloom in the Conlon garden\u00a0this fall season. My\u00a08 year-old camellia has 50 or more flowers currently opened and promises to continue blooming\u00a0through most of November. Other hardy fall blooming cultivars are heavily budded and will open\u00a0 thru\u00a0mid- December, weather permitting. A few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10,202,601],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}