Camellias are a staple in southern gardens. Here's what you know about the flower, including the best time to plant and fertilize.

Camellia flowers, with their beautiful petals and evergreen leaves, would add layers of charm to your yard. That's as long as you watch out for these diseases.

Camellias, however, bloom during the winter when the weather is chilly and the plants are dormant; they are blooming, but not in active growth. So now is an excellent time to select blooming ...

Yuletide camellia's blossoms bring in late season pollinators. (Norman Winter/TNS) It is hard for The Garden Guy to imagine a more perfect Christmas plant for the landscape than Yuletide camellia.

Remind me not to plant camellias. Not that camellias (Camellia japonica) aren't wonderful plants, with their elegant, sometimes fragrant, blossoms and their glossy, evergreen foliage. But where I ...

The more popular camellia plant is the Camellia japonica (our state flower); this is the one that is most people think of when mentioning camellias.

Fertilize camellias with a specialty azalea/camellia plant food applied in early spring, late spring, and early fall. Keep it properly watered by checking its soil regularly.

As many plants wind down for the year, camellias come into their own. The glossy, deep-green Southern aristocrats brighten the cool season with perfect blooms. We mainly grow two camellia species ...

Tidewater Camellia Club Show and Sale will feature over 80 varieties. Plants are $35 each. Also there will be a guided Arboretum Camellia walk tours.

Most people don’t realize that tea comes from a camellia. Yes, that’s right. It's camellia sinensis, commonly known as the tea plant.

The camellias, when they matured, may have turned out to be a bit of a genetic mistake. But they survived because they were homegrown camellia varieties, and near and dear to someone’s heart.