My partner and I bought our house over winter and have never properly gardened before. This plant (we believe is called a Japanese Camellia) caught our attention a couple weeks back when it started to bloom since we never expected it to and fell in love. However over the last few days the flowers have started to wilt and fall off. How can we stop it from wilting? We’ve watered it the moment we knew it was blooming but there was some serious heavy rainfall last week. It is in the back of our garden and receives a decent amount of sunlight.
by ItchyPlatypus
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Flowers don’t last forever.
It’s just the normal life cycle of flowers. Enjoy them while you have them! 🌺🌺🌺
Sounds like it need nutrients. It’s best to fertilize camellias after they’ve bloomed, and then the next blooming season they’ll have healthy blooms for months.
Generally you shouldn’t look at the health of flowers but the health of the leaves which are a better indicator of a plants health, and looks like it’s loving life 🙂 no flower lasts forever and some plants have them longer than others
It’s a Camelia, they do that 😅.
Camellia are hilarious they put so much effort into their flowers then they fall off what seems like instantly- still love them and have 4 bushes.
It’s a feature – not a bug
Some plants are just drama queens. As another poster mentioned- pay attention to the leaves more than the blooms. Your camelia is gorgeous!
Formal for the plant to wilt quick
If the appearance really bothers you, you can deadhead the flowers, once they get droopy.
Camelias get sunburnt easily. Nothing you can do.
Just needs deadheading. Normal flowering plant stuff
What grows, dies. Just admire the flowers when they bloom, and appreciate when the wither as new ones would bloom soon 🙂