Do camellias like coffee grounds?

What is the best soil for camellias in pots?

I would like to know , as I have had great luck with the one in the photo.

It was recommended by my nursery.

Thanks. My husband's a landscape architect and he is in charge of all the trees on our property. He tells me what is good for our trees. It's been my experience that camellias do best in a slightly acidic soil, but not too acidic. My husband always uses a fertilizer that is called "tree food" or something like that. It seems to work really well.

The one in your picture looks great. I'm surprised to hear it has a problem.

Camellia are easy to grow and are very forgiving of poorly prepared soil. There is a book called 'Camellia Camellia' that is pretty good. I've never heard of a problem with camellia's in a container, but I could be wrong.

The tree in the picture looks like a standard variety, 'Royal' comes to mind. The soil looks good, but I don't know anything about growing plants in pots. Do they grow well in containers?

I think that camellia is a hardy plant. They are used to very dry soil. Soil is not the problem.

I think that the problem with that particular camellia is that it is grown from a cutting, so it is a young plant. A young plant is like a baby. It is not yet ready to stand up straight. It does not have strong roots yet.

You should wait until it has roots, then it will be more sturdy. If it has roots already, it is not good to pot it again.

When I bought my camellia, it was in a pot, but it was very thin, just barely reaching the top of the pot. You can see that in the photo. It should have been potted in soil, not just in peat moss.

As far as soil, this is just what I use. It is not organic, but the plants grow well in it. Soil, as you can see, has a lot of sand and gravel.

There are many brands of potting soil. Find a brand that you like, and buy the largest bag that is available.

Do camellias like coffee grounds?

We bought some beautiful blue camellias from a store and brought them home.

They were beautiful when we received them, but by the next morning they were gone. We are pretty sure that an insect ate them, but we really don't know if that's the case. Is it possible that they like coffee grounds?

I doubt that camellias are attracted to coffee grounds. It is more likely that the insect found the seeds attractive and went looking for more. In fact, the insects commonly known as "budworms" often look for fruit, including camellia seeds, in orchards as part of their diet. They can eat quite a lot of food on any given day!

But even if they do eat the seeds, it's not very likely that they'd leave behind coffee grounds because coffee beans are not a particularly good source of food. They're mostly protein (about 70 percent), carbohydrates (about 20 percent), fiber (6 percent), and fats and oils (less than 1 percent).

As for the question of how to prevent such losses, I recommend using screens to protect the flowers during the warm months and to protect the leaves and stems during the cooler months. The screens must be light, easy to clean and disinfect, and must allow air circulation.

The best option is to use metal screens with mesh sizes that are too small to pass through, and that attach to the framework of the container with heavy duty elastic bands. I have used plastic flower stands and plastic sheeting to screen some of my plants, but neither were as satisfactory as the metal screens.

My favorite method is to suspend the screens from the top of the container. They are attached to a piece of aluminum angle that is held in place by 2-inch strips of heavy rubber tubing. I set up this system over the course of about a month. It is simple, effective, and inexpensive.

I also recommend that you buy and install overhead protection. This works on many types of plants, and it's a very important part of my system. I use 2-inch strips of steel strapping for overhead protection. It can be installed on many different types of plants with the use of heavy-duty wire ties, staples, or twist ties. Some people use heavy-duty plastic straps.

I also highly recommend using the right kind of pots. Camellias like large containers.

Do camellias like big pots?

I asked.

The boy looked surprised. He opened his mouth, but no words came out.

Well, they may be hard to grow, the woman told me, but they look good in a big pot. She told me that she took care of the water and everything else, and still it kept losing its leaves. A few weeks later it looked just fine again, but I thought it was time to move on.

That first planting taught me two things about buying a camellia: One: Buy big pots. Two: Be patient. Even though the camellias weren't really a high-maintenance plant, they really needed a lot of attention to start off. I remember going to look at some camellias at the nursery near my house and seeing plants whose roots were coming out through the bottom of their pots. Their owners would have done better taking them home that day and placing them directly in the garden, rather than waiting a couple of weeks until the nursery crew got around to planting them. Sometimes it takes a couple of days for a plant to mature in the ground.

By the time they'd matured enough to really look good, I had already begun feeling disappointed. It's not that I don't like camellias. In fact, I love them. They have such a variety of colors and textures, and, best of all, they make you feel good just looking at them.

But for whatever reason I can't seem to grow them right now, and, as a result, I don't grow as many as I used to. It's as if there are a million other things competing for my attention. And sometimes the camellias feel like they're competing for my time and attention. It makes me wonder what kind of gardener I am. Have I neglected them so much that now they're in danger of never blooming?