April is a key month for gardening jobs, often bringing warmer days and much more hospitable conditions for plants and flowers.
It's the ideal time to give certain varieties more attention, particularly if you want to ensure vibrant flowers next year.
For example, spring bedding plants and flowers such as pansies and primroses will benefit from deadheading in April to extend their bloom.
Gardening expert and TikTok creator Ish (@gardening.with.ish) has explained why it's so important to carry out maintenance tasks on camellias to ensure they continue to bloom well for years to come.
The expert says that gardeners should prune camellias immediately after they finish flowering, before new summer buds form, typically in April or early May. It's advised that gardeners should use sharp, clean tools to remove dead, diseased, or crossing branches.
Ish said: "When your camellia stops flowering, it becomes the most crucial time to do any maintenance jobs.
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"This doesn't want any cutting or pruning at the end of the summer or wintertime like most of your other plants, because throughout the course of the year, what this is actually doing is developing new buds ready for next year's flowers."
Later in the summer, Ish suggests that gardeners shouldn't be deadheading camellias, as the flowers will naturally fall away on their own.
He explains: "So if you chop this all back at the end of summer, chances are you're going to ruin the display next year, and no one wants that."
It's also very important to keep these plants well watered. Ish explains: "A lot of people think because it's done, it doesn't need a good watering.
"Keep it well-watered like you would the rest of your plants, and next year, you should end up with an even more gorgeous display than you did this year. Not too difficult, ey?"
The video, which has over 35K views, was met with approval from gardeners, who took to the comments section to reply to Ish.
"I didn't know they needed watering, I mistakenly thought it liked to be dry, being a woodland plant," wrote one viewer.
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