Yellowing Camelia?

Inherited old camelia, branches spindly, leaves yellowing and the flowers don't open properly and turn brown quickly. Any ideas about how to make it healthy again?

Yellowing Camelia?
Camelias require an acid soil pH of 6 or less.


Are you growing it in a container? If so you should grow it in an erracaeous compost which is slightly acidic. sounds like you have planted in the ground and is alkaline and not acidic. If so remove some soil around the plant and add lots of the EC.and or peat moss and some 'iron sequestrin. do not let plant dry out.


Feed with some fertilizer suitable for erricious plants. It may come back to healthy growth.


Hope this helps Dezzie
Reply:Camelias must have peaty soil,if it's in a pot ,repot in fresh potting compost and water well.


If it's in the garden,they can't stand early morning sun.so put it against a west facing wall.
Reply:Camellia's require ericaceous soil; and by the sounds of things your plant s dyer need of some TLC.


First I would trim the plant and thin out the spindly growth. Take out the 3 D's - dead, damaged and diseased. Then after reshaping the plant I would then re-pot into some Ericaceous John Innes and only pot the plant up only one or two sizes. When you are re-potting check the roots out for vine weevil damage. If present water with Bayer Provado.


Once you've done this feed with some sequestered iron plant food tonic and then feed every 7-14 days with Miracle-Gro Ericaceous Plant Food and place in any position except east. As when your flowers are present in the winter; if they thaw too quickly they will drop off.
Reply:Camelias need to be postioned in a place where strong cold winds don't get to them. If your camelia is in an exposed place, I would suggest that you move it to somewhere more protected.





They also need an ericaceous compost, and need to be fed with a good all round fertiliser from March to September.
Reply:Check out these two websites:





http://www.greengold.com.au/greengold/CA...





http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_trees_shrubs...