Mid-Atlantic Gardening: June blooms, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Here's the top part of the shrub----disgusting. I tell you! All out of shape and baren.

The leaves that grew the previous year, get weird and blotchy around mid-winter then in early Spring--they start falling off leaving bare stems.....This has only been going on for the last 3 years.

The new growth is as healthy as can be--but it will be the one getting yukky and falling off the following Spring...
Mike asked a Horticulture Guy to look at the leaves (I sent him some) and he said it looked more like some kind of damage for extreme weather conditions.....Mike agrees--

I have a hard time believing this--as this Camellia has been in this same spot for about 10 years.

All the flowers were also fungusy looking--like a watersoaked peony or Rose bloom....