Comments on: Camellias

By: karen

karen — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:22:31 +0000

Many thanks, Billy. I wonder if Hardenbergia would grow here? I have admired it in many California gardens, but haven’t seen it in the southeast. I shall have to try.

Oh blast. Curses on IE. I shall have to investigate that on the office Windows machine. Thanks very much for the tip.

By: Billy Goodnick

Billy Goodnick — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:28:00 +0000

Lovely shots. You have some of my favorite plants here. The jasmine is definitely L. Polyanthus
BTW: It looks fabulous co-planted with Hardenbergia. The bloom at the same time around here (Santa Barbara, CA).
Also, did you know that the right column of your blog obscures much of the main section of you posting.?
Right now, I can’t see what I’m typing past the word “definitely” in the first column.
I’m viewing it in Microsoft Internet Explorer on a 17″ Dell monitor. Just thought you might want to check.
And thanks for your comments at my blog. BG (GWG)

By: karen

karen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:32:28 +0000

So they say, but I must say I have never tried a pink of white one in full sun.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:16:37 +0000

I love camellias. Just planted two this spring. I didn’t realize that the red ones did better in the sun than the paler varieties. Thanks for the tip!

By: karen

karen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:22:06 +0000

Love it! That’s a great thought. Trouble is, I love that imagery for the single flower, but it doesn’t work for the whole bush. (I can’t bear to publish a photo of that.)

By: Deb Strange

Deb Strange — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:57:33 +0000

Think of this bright red, blowsy flower as the character of Eleanor Lavish from “Room with a View”. Bold, outspoken and unashamed of her pulchritude!

By: Annie in Austin

Annie in Austin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:31:16 +0000

My camellia has no sublety either, Karen - but at least it grows and blooms.
We share similar lists of things we miss from Northern gardens, but I’d have to add lilacs and most campanula and hostas to mine. I guess we need multiple gardens in different places to have it all.

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

By: karen

karen — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:51:05 +0000

I am not going to sympathize Jodi and Kylee. You can grow rhododendrons, peonies, forsythia, and bearded irises. I miss all of them very much.

I have a friend who feels you should not worry about how camellias look in the landscape. They tend to be handsome when not in flower, but messy when in flower. She says just pick the flowers and bring them indoors.

By: Kylee

Kylee — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:26:40 +0000

No camellias at all here. Like Jodi, I enjoy seeing yours though. I’m glad you kept it and just look - it gave you another thing to blog about!

By: jodi

jodi — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:40:15 +0000

Sigh….all you lovely southern bloggers are writing about camellias, which of course I can’t grow…but they do make me feel better, given the 8-10 inches of new snow we have.