Feeding Camellias. Their showy flowers come in whites pinks and reds and appear early in the season. You can also use special fertilizers formulated specifically for azalea and camellia feeding but only on well established landscape plants and never on container plants.
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. Camellias r us uses and recommends scotts osmocote plus azaleas camellias rhododendrons six month fertiliser. If you are wondering when to transplant or when to move a camellia.
You ll find two primary species of camellias in american gardens.
Once the shrub has finished blooming broadcast a balanced fertilizer for acid loving plants around the plant s drip line. The more sheltered the camellia the better the flowering will be. 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. You ll find two primary species of camellias in american gardens.