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Camellia Glen

Locality: Palmwoods, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5445 0333

Address: 52 McKays Lane 4555 Palmwoods, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.camelliaglen.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Still a lot of flower on the camellias - we are ‘open to the public’ again Friday and Saturday 21 and 22 and again 28 and 29 August - 8.00 to 3.00. Come visit - walk the garden and see our 400 camellias - some still in flower - buy some for yours. No eftpos and please byo carry bags.

24.01.2022 Our open days..... So at around this time of the year, folks start asking ‘when are you going to be open to the public again - we want some camellias?’ Whereas we are open by arrangement at other times, here are the dates that we are scheduling to be available to the public. The garden will be open for folk to wander, and we will do our best to have all the camellias in the garden labeled. ... We have about 400 camellias in the garden and the sasanquas have started to flower already and will continue for a few months to about June, and by then the japonicas and hybrids will be flowering as well. These continue until about September by which time the weather has warmed up so that the camellia flowers start to suffer in the heat. The reticulatas are always the last to flower. And then there are plants available for purchase - to add to your garden. This season we have about 150 different varieties. Most of our camellias are in 140mm pots only with a few 200mm pot sizes. We will be open 8.00am to 3.00pm on these days. The schedule is open to change as circumstances dictate. So here is the plan. Friday 16 and Saturday 17 April 2021 Friday 23 and Saturday 24 April Friday 30 April and Saturday 1 May Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May CLOSED - see us at Pine Rivers Plant Fair Saturday and Sunday 16 and 17 May 2021 Saturday 21 May Friday 4 and Saturday 5 June Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 June - also see us at Maleny Garden Club Gardening on the Edge - Maleny Showgrounds Pavilion Sunday 3 July 2021 - see us at the Queensland Camellia Society Show and Sale - MtCoottha Botanical Gardens Auditorium - opens 9.00 to 3.00 Friday 9 and Saturday 10 July Friday 6 and Saturday 7 August Friday 13 and Saturday 14 August There may be more - to be confirmed - but we are still open by arrangement at other times. Please call us to arrange a date and time. Come and see us .....

23.01.2022 We will have camellias - not a lot of flowers but it should be fun

23.01.2022 An early camellia fix - this one from Louisiana. Black Tie is always a favourite and a beautiful flower. Our early sasanquas are starting to flower now too.

20.01.2022 Not a camellia, but just wanted to share this..... This is the first flower we have had on our Worsleya procera - the blue Amaryllis. Our plant is about 5-6 years old, gets lots of morning sun, and we fertilised it last year.

19.01.2022 After a number of enquiries as to when we we will be open to the public again, we have decided to open Friday 18 and Saturday 19 September 2020 - 8.00 to 3.00. As usual we are available by arrangement at other times - please call 54450333 to make a time. We will decide on an October date later.... There will be few camellias in flower but we will still have lots of both sasanquas and japonicas/hybrids - in 140mm pots. We are hoping for rain - the garden needs it. I wish we could say we have these for sale - but sadly no - c.amplexicaulis and c. concinna

18.01.2022 Our Camellias have started flowering - some sasanquas are already past their best - Mikuni Ko and Sparkling Burgungy have been in flower for a couple of weeks - and all the other sasanquas are full of bud and ready to burst. A few japonicas - Imperator, Dona Hertzillia de Freitas Magalhaes, Alba Plena, Beni Arejishi and of course Dewaitairin (Daitairin) the first of our Higos to flower. Open days after Easter - see previous posts and our website for details. Come walk around our garden - buy some camellias for yours.

16.01.2022 Our SEQ flowering season is past its zenith - still lots out - japonicas, hybrids and reticulatas - but sasanquas and early japonicas are all but done. A favourite white formal double japonica is a Paolina Maggi. The description says that it frequently has a pink ‘stripe’ among the petals. In fact must have a pink splash/stripe - even a whole petal sometimes - and sometimes it’s hard to find. Here are some examples - some of the blooms are lousy but look for the ‘pink’.

13.01.2022 A new discovery - for us - in our garden. Camellia japonica Grace Albritton is a beautiful small formal double flower with a most interesting depth to the flower - and white with blush pink tips to the petals. Then we see a red flower - same size, same shape, same depth - but red. Grace Albritton is known to have a number of sports - but none that I can see as being red. We will mark this branch and see what it does next season.

13.01.2022 There are lots of camellia species that are reasonably available - like rosiflora, Tsaii, Lutchuensis, Miyagii, sinensis (and pink sinensis), Crapnelliana, grijsii, transnokoensis and nokoensis. Growing conditions vary and differ with geography - sinensis, the tea camellia, is grown in full sun in tea plantations from China to Atherton - mostly at altitude, but most of these do better for us (in Palmwoods on the Sunshine Coast, South East Queensland) in part shade. Then there... are a bunch of other species camellias - many difficult to propagate and therefore hard to come by - which we are still learning to grow. How to best propagate them, cuttings, seeds, grafts - when to do it. What is the after care. Then what conditions do we keep them in - do we plant out in the garden, keep them in pots, will they take sun, do they need shade. This will all differ with geography, location, climate. Our weather/climate is so different to the hills outside Sydney or Melbourne. We have hot wet summers and cool dry winters - others have cold wet winters and hot dry summers. What works for one might not work elsewhere. We have seen forests of Nitidissima and others of the yellow camellias growing under dense shade (cultivated, not natural) - in Guangzhou China - and that is what we try to replicate here. In our experience, Nitidissima foliage that gets direct sun will go pale green and look washed out. We have seen Amplexicaulis growing (China) in the open with not a shade tree in sight, with dark green giant leaves and flowers galore, and with seedlings growing naturally underneath. Camellia Azalea (changii) seems to prefer at least part shade - as seen growing in the Singapore Botanical Gardens and in a walled garden in Guangzhou with 40 or 50 hybrids of c.azalea - all in part shade. Our treatment is to provide almost full shade but plenty of light. Some will take more sun than others but we are careful as we don’t have many to experiment with. These are a few photos of where we are growing some of our species camellias in our garden. Some, I hope, will find this of interest - Elizabeth O'Malley-Navin See more

12.01.2022 We have just 3 more Fridays and Saturdays where we plan to be open to the public - 14 and 15, 21 and 22, and 28 and 29 August - 8.00 to 3.00. We still have a great range of sasanquas and japonicas and hybrids available - in 140mm pots. Check out our 400 or so in or garden and select some for yours. We are happy to help you with your selections to make sure that what you get will suit the position. After this, we will be available by appointment - as usual. Just call 54450333... to arrange a convenient time. Current Covid-19 distancing rules apply. Please be patient and respect others. Come visit. See more

10.01.2022 One of the last flowers for the season on camellia hybrid Waterlily.

09.01.2022 Camellia species Amplexicaulis - flower out today. It has to be one of our special favourites.

07.01.2022 Sometimes people ask how we grow our camellias - we say - by cuttings. So for those interested, here is our process. Remember that we are in SE Queensland. Cuttings -...Continue reading

07.01.2022 We collected seed from a few of our camellia species earlier in the year - these were some that we have just potted up. They include Crapnelliana (largest of the camellia seeds), Nitidissima and Amplexicaulis. All seeds were picked from our own trees. Others we did last season - Tsaii, Pingguoensis Var terminalis, Chekiangoleosa.

07.01.2022 Camellias - now is the time to get your camellias and get them planted out before the new growth starts. In fact, some japonicas are starting already. Camellia Glen is open to the public again this Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August 2020. - 8.00 to 3.00. We have sasanquas for sunny spots, for hedges and privacy screens, japonicas for shady gardens, small leaf and fragrant hybrids for highlights. Plants in 140mm pots - most are $13. Come visit, lots of camellias still in flower in our garden - get some for yours. Here are a few ....

06.01.2022 Just setting up for the Maleny Garden Club ‘Spring Fair’ - a bit late for our camellias so we will have no flowers - but we do have a very nice range of varieties of camellias - sasanqua, japonica and the odd hybrid and species. Come and visit. No eftpos . Should be fun!

04.01.2022 Camellia Reticulata Simpatica - flowering now.

01.01.2022 A lot of people have commented on how good the azaleas have flowered this year - with lots more to come. The lack of rain in SE Queensland and dry air has resulted in the flower petals staying fresh and not turning brown. This browning of the petals and the flowers going ‘mushy’ is often put down to Azalea petal blight which particularly affects the flowers when they get wet. Azalea petal blight can be treated chemically with good results. But - here in SE Queensland, what ...we get on our azaleas is often not petal blight but botrytis - a similar fungal result with petals going brown and mushy - but different. And it needs a different treatment. People have sometimes said that they don’t like azaleas because of petal blight - that they spray for petal blight with no result. That’s because they don’t have petal blight....... Treat for botrytis and not petal blight. It took us a couple of years to get this right. Take care when using any chemicals and chemical sprays.

01.01.2022 Here a few more camellias - these from Louisiana in the US. Some of these folk are having temps below 0 C - a bit different to here... Enjoy.