How to Grow Camellia Houseplants

The Camellia is a houseplant for the person with a green thumb, or at least a yellow one. Keeping the Camellia alive indoors requires work and the proper environment. If you're able to follow the growing guidelines, the Camellia can prosper indoors as a beautiful, flowering bushy plant. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

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      Maintain a temperature no warmer than 68 degrees F during the day and even cooler at night. Growing a Camellia is a difficult task in most homes.

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      Keep your Camellia in a cool basement or three season porch during the winter months. In the summer, plant the Camellia in a shady outdoor flower garden.

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      Grow your own tea plant. The Camellia leaves can be seeped for tea. Outdoor plants tend to thrive better, but indoor plants if kept in a cool environment can produce adequate tea leaves.

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      Use soil with a high acid level. Plant your Camellia in a large pot. It should drain well and include some peat moss.

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      Water regularly during spring and summer. Keep the soil moist at all times. Slow down watering during winter.

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      Spray the leaves of your Camellia daily either with a spray bottle or hose if outdoors.

Tips & Warnings

  • If cared for properly, the Camellia is known to live for hundreds of years.

  • Have patience. Adequate tea leaves take at least three years to develop well on the Camellia plant.

  • Prune the Camellia to form a bush or tree shape by cutting back vegetation after the blooming season, usually in late fall or early winter.

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