Camellia Club of Mobile Inc.
Newsletter Issue
7 Vol. IX
- April 2013
FINAL MEETING 2012/2013 CAMELLIA SEASON – APRIL 14th
The Club’s final meeting for this camellia season will be held, as usual, at the
Mobile Botanical Gardens, social half hour from 2 p.m. with meeting starting at
2:30 p.m. We will have a panel of
expert camellia growers available to answer any questions members have on taking
care of their prized plants, planting, fertilizing, pruning, controlling
diseases, etc. If you have leaves
or blooms that seem to show a problem, put them in a zip-loc bag (we don’t want
to spread anything) and our panel will do their best to give you a solution.
Advice will be given on getting camellias safely through our hot, humid summer.
We will also hold the election of Club Officers and Board Members to serve for
the upcoming 2013/2014 season. A
slate of proposed candidates will be presented by the 3-member Nominating
Committee selected by President Lyman Holland, nominations can also be made from
the floor. In order to vote you
must be present at this meeting.
CAMELLIA PHOTO CONTEST:
Our annual camellia photography contest will also take place at this meeting.
Members present will vote anonymously on their favorite photo in each of
the following categories:
1. Best photo of camellia 2. Best photo of camellia and people
3. Best photo of camellia in
arrangement 4.
Best photo of camellia in landscape
We’ve really nice prizes, so do bring along your photos and take part, no need
to frame them, prints can be any size
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Bobby Green’s Super Sasanqua Presentation at March Meeting
If you didn’t attend our March meeting and Bobby Green’s talk and Power Point
presentation on sasanquas, you should slap yourself for missing a really great
informative program. The pictures
Bobby showed of recently developed sasanquas were quite breathtaking, “Dream
Team” & “Dream Quilt” lived up to their names, they were dreamy!
The scarlet and white “Stars and Stripes” was another knockout, so many
of the newer varieties have really large flowers.
Do browse through the
greennurseries.com website to see all the lovely new plants.
Bobby, of course, only sells wholesale but I have seen his plants at many
of our local nurseries, including most recently at Wilsey Nursery in Baldwin
County.
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Camellia Chat....
As most of us know our April Meeting sees the close of the 2012/2013 camellia
season. We won’t meet again
until September 2013.
The 2014 Camellia Show program will be printed during the summer & for many
years now members have been invited to sponsor awards in honor or in memory of
loved ones. We currently have only
two awards that are available for sponsorship at $20.00 each:
Protected blooms:
Small Japonica runner-up
Miniature runner-up
If you wish to sponsor one of these awards please give details to Jim Dwyer or
Vera Curry at the April Meeting, you will not be billed until the membership
invoices are sent out at the end of August.
In last month’s Newsletter I mentioned, I thought, all the members who
generously gave their time and talents in demonstrating
various forms of propagating camellias
- however
- since I suffer from ‘duck’s disease’
(my rear is too close to the ground!) I was unable to see over the people
crowding around the scion sale table and completely missed that “Team Oyler”
were also busy demonstrating grafting techniques.
My apologies to Don & Carolyn, and my thanks to those members who pointed
out my omission! And I thought people
didn’t read the Newsletter!
If you think plants don’t listen when you talk to them, listen to this story:
Early on the Monday morning after Bobby Green’s talk on sasanquas I
stopped and told my little “Reverend Ida” sasanqua that she needed to grow up
into a BIG bush like the one Bobby showed in his Power Point presentation
- about a week later, again
while wandering around with my morning cup of tea, I spotted a gleam of crimson
down by “Reverend Ida” and there
was one brilliant bloom! I’ve never
had a sasanqua bloom in mid- March!