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Q: I have had a camellia in a pot for the last 3 years and had a lovely flower display this year, however, the buds look brown and are still tightly closed. Advice please.
A: This means that the plant dried out sometime last summer, which doesn’t allow the bud to develop the next spring [the following April/May], because the stem is too narrow for the sap to push the bud to open. I would suggest you possibly repot the camellia into a larger pot using ericaceous compost and try not to allow it to dry out this summer, particularly between June and September when its forming next year’s buds.
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