Camellias

Freecycler: We've got 4 lovely Camellia bushes that need a new home. I don't know how well
they transfer, but they are yours if you want to come and dig them up. We are going to a more drought tolerant yard, but it seems a waste to just cut these bushes down! I don't think excavation equipment is necessary, just a shovel should probably do.... 

Coveting others' Camellias in the winter and forgetting how messy they are when you live with them, I was happy to find this week-old post that many others had passed by or flaked out on. Some people say "Blech...old lady plants". I say, "Free!" and "The blossoms look pretty floating in a bowl of water in the winter". These four stately ladies all had 3-4 inch diameter trunks and put up quite a fight. All five of us agreed excavation equipment would have been preferable to 2 hours, a shovel, and compromised root systems. Three of them are putting out new leaves. The fourth is leafless and required a hard pruning for it to be presentable in the garden. Not sure she'll make it, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt until next spring.