Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING!!! Post your pics!! April Edition :), 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
My Camellia sets buds in the fall--or sooner. They are there all winter
and as the weather warms--they get fatter and fatter until they bloom.
Mine normally blooms in April into May . Not this year, though.

There are many types of Camellias and they have many different blooming times.
Some bloom in the winter--some in the summer.

"Buds" would never remain on the shrub after blooming...When a bloom is finished,
it falls off clean from the stem. Nothing left behind.
Yours may have frozen too....

I can only talk about MY Camellia and how it behaves....

Picture of fallen off blooms...