I am a hobby gardener and I’m taking advantage of the fact that my yard here at my winter home in Central Georgia, is full of camellia bushes. Every southern garden needs at least one camellia bush. Unfortunately, camellia bushes do not grow in Michigan, the climate up there is much too cold for the buds to ever survive. I have twenty one camellia bushes in my yard and they represent a variety of different cultivars that vary from one that blooms now in October and is now in bloom, all the way up to others that start blooming in December and bloom from December through March.