What's wrong with my Camilla

[fblake]

Hi all

I am hoping someone will be able to tell me what's wrong with my Camilla, it's been like this for some time and this year only produced one flower.

Any tips on how to help it will be welcomed!

Thank you

Also known as a Camellia - autotext 🙄

Problems with flowering are usually down to a lack of/erratic water in summer and autumn when they're producing flower buds for the following season (it also depends how old your plant is, they can take a little while to flower reliably). I'm not sure what is eating the leaves though!

Thank you for your reply. Our gardener said it looked like something was eating it. He said probably slugs but there hasn't been any trails. Could it be disease? It was planted about a year and a half ago?

The something eating it could be vine weevil. Looks all wrong for slugs.

Is it in Ericaceous soil which acidic loving plants, such as Camellias grow best in? Feeding will help with Ericaceous feed as well.

I think it is vine weevil damage. Mine looked very similar, and I had to get rid.

Thank you. We have another close by which has no damage at all? Will take another photo.

Damaged plant.

Healthy plant, about 2 meters to the left.

Though there is a path in between so could stop any weevils?

That is definitely vine weevil damage. As an aside, my six year old camellia has never flowered