Online Growing Camellias Course
Growing Camelias VHT109
Develops your understanding of soils, feeding, watering, pruning, planting methods, pest & disease control, propagation, & more. Improve your ability to identify different varieties (both common and uncommon), and how to use camellias to achieve desired landscape effects.
This is a course for amateurs and professionals; plant collectors, camellia enthusiasts, nurserymen, landscapers, gardeners and horticulturists.
There are 8 lessons as follows:
1. Introduction
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- Scope and nature
- System of plant identification
- General characteristics of camellias
- Review of main cultivars
- Information contacts (ie: nurseries, seed, clubs etc)
2. Culture
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- Planting
- Staking
- Mulching
- Watering
- Pest & disease
- Feeding
- Pruning
- Protection from wind, salt air etc.
3. Propagation
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- Methods of propagating camellias
- Types of Cuttings (Soft, semi hard, hard)
- Seed propagation
- Grafting
- Propagating materials
- Potting up cuttings
4. Using Camellias
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- Woodland plantings
- Garden beds
- Specimin trees
- Ground covers
- Growing in shade
- Topiary
- Hedging
- Pleaching
- Espaliers
- Container growing
5. The most Commonly Grown Varieties
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Camellia japonica cultivars
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6. Other important Groups
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Camellia sasanqua
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Camellia reticulata
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Camellia sinensis (Tea)
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7. The Lesser Grown Varieties
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- Camellia species
- Camellia hybrids
8. Special Assignment - On one selected plant or group
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