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@j*oono wrote:

I don't mind when the ground is covered in petals though.  It looks lovely... for a while.

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If it is anything like my neighbours camellia it will not be petals on the ground but whole flowers.

When my children and her graddaughter were young they used to collect the flowers from the ground every afternnon when they got home from school and we had float bowls of camellias all over the house.  They were lovely.

Now there's a plan Lyndal .... we have one of those 'floaty bowls' here that had floating candles in it at one time, but the idea of those flowers sounds splendid, thank you, certainly will do that when they fall.

Have to go folks, thanks for a lovely chat and all the help, I'll be back on the weekend ....  

These are mine Tas, I tend to grow my cabbages through the colder months as there are no cabbage moths around then. I plant in 2 stages, so I have plenty to get me through summer for coleslaw etc

Gardenias make beautiful floating flowers, and have a gorgeous scent too

They certainly do.  I wonder if they stay fresh looking for longer when they are in water.  

They can do. Indoors they seem to turn brownish later. Gardenias last well on the plant though.

I should have given mine a bit of a prune before spring hit.  It's gone rather leggy now but I'll give it a hair cut.  Last time I did that and chopped off about a third of the bush it really thickened itself up and looked beautiful.

I didn't know to prune when they went leggy. So now I have 8 foot tall gardenias on the thin side. If I get more I will prune vigorously.

I don't know if I can prune the existing ones right back, now. They mightn't thicken. They are about ten years old.

It might be best to wait and see what happens to mine.  I just took to it like a man with a hedge trimmer.  

Mine is in a very large pot so I don't particularly want it to get too big.

Will do. Thanks 🙂