Camellias 1

Named by Linnaeus in 1735 in honor of the Jesuit priest and naturalist Georg Josef Kamel, Camellia is a kind, especially from China, but with a number for a wide area of Southeast Asia. The exact number of species is unclear, but it's somewhere around 100 Camellia is an important commercial center is due to a kind of genre, Camellia sinensis, the plant produced from the tea.

Most gardeners distinguish two main groups of camellias that bloom in fall and springBloom. However, it is not so simple. Each time a kind of many species (as
Rhododendron, rose or camellia) is used for a variety of hybrids, different groups tend to produce form.

There are four groups of Camellia: japonica, reticulata, and sasanqua hybrid, with a series of small groups around the rarer species such as Camellia hiemalis and interspecific hybrids, such as Camellia × williamsii (Camellia Camellia japonica × basesaluensis).

E 'common opinion that under the camellias are in bloom Sansanquas gardeners in the fall, while the rest are spring flowerers. The need is not true, certainly the Sasanquas are usually the first flower, but with careful selection and choice of site, you can more or less continuous flowering from autumn to spring.

Cultivation

rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas often refers, not closely related, which certainlyprefer similar conditions. This is not surprising, as they appear in similar climates and can often grow together in the wild are.

Camellias are generally less tolerant than the rhododendrons are more resistant to extreme cold, but I'm not picky: the plants. Most of the species and hybrids are resistant throughout the country who need no protection, except in areas can be very cold winter, and summers here
not usually hot and dry as to cause much damage.

ToMost of your camellias, it is important to follow the same methods of soil preparation, as recommended for rhododendrons. Camellias have strong and deep roots, but they still need the same wet, filled with humus, loose soil, well-oxygenated, if successful. Similarly, regular mulching is always an advantage.

Camellias prefer a neutral to acid soil and does not tolerate extreme acidity that most of them are rhododendrons. On very acid soils, the addition of small amountsDolomitic lime not only increases the pH value, but allow easier absorption of nutrients.

Once established, most of the Camellias seem pretty well without getting too much attention, but are recommended by the same problems of chlorosis rhododendrons so much power. Skip camellias should be fed regularly, as they are distributed much more prone to defects due to their limited root.

Camellias best in a sheltered spot in light shade or whereget only morning sun. This is not so much for the love of work, such as flowers. "The plants are exposed to tolerate a sunny position, but to encourage the flowers. Lank thick shade to reduce growth and flowering. To burn the sun and flowers and fall prematurely. A site that is exposed to strong winds will be reduced drastically the life of flowers, but most of all camellias.

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