Mulch & Frosts

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Mulch

A mulch on the top of the soil around your plant reduces moisture loss, keeps conditions cool and damp, provides long term nutrition for your plants and reduces weed growth. This is very beneficial to the health of the plant. Materials such as pine bark, wood chips, compost, fallen leaves, sugar cane mulch etc. are suitable for mulching. For most camellia plants a mulch depth of 2.5-5.0cm is sufficient.

Frosts

Being autumn flowering, Camellia sasanquas usually flower before frost can damage the blooms. Early frost can, however, damage the flowers in the colder areas. In cold, frosty, open areas the foliage discolours and looks quite ill. But with the return of warm weather the plants happily grow on again.