Q: I have an idea for camellia hedges around my back garden, because they’re evergreen and bloom early. Can you suggest what kinds of camellias might work best as hedges? A: If your back garden is ...

Few shrubs can provide as much pleasure with their beautiful blooms and dark green foliage as the camellia sasanqua. The lovely flowers are enjoyable, but so is the handsome and shiny dark-green ...

Since camellias are my first passion, I like to incorporate them into my garden spaces in as many ways as I can. Not only as standalone small trees, but also as plantings that we don’t usually think ...

Did I really need yet another camellia? One that no grower in the United States carried? Let alone a whole slew of them to make a hedge? Not that our garden is large, by any means. But a hedge takes ...

Question. Our camellia hedge is blooming nicely but is thin at the base. Should we cut it back when the blooming stops or wait until spring to do the pruning? Answer. Enjoy the blooms now and wait ...

For once, Marcia and I had narrowed down our list of what to give beloved daughter-in-law Dawn for her birthday (which is the day this appears in print, not coincidentally). It was going to either be ...