If you've been following the camellia dilemma from News Tribune reporter Stacey Mulick, we have an update for you. Here is what Stacey has to say:

Based on all your wonderful and insightful advice, I moved my as-yet-to-bloom camellia this weekend.

I had the plant in an all-shade spot. Readers said it needed to have some sun but not too much. I struggled for a while with where to move the camellia. My backyard flower beds get mostly full sun. That option was out. The flower bed in the front of my house is pretty much set.

But I found a spot in the front of the house on the corner of my flower bed. The spot gets some morning sun and late afternoon sun but is otherwise in the shade. I took out a rhodie – one of three plants remaining from when we first moved into our house almost five years ago – and put the camellia there instead. That rhodie has never really thrived (I think it was practically the same size as it was five years ago and I’ve not done much to encourage it over the seasons) and I’ve been eyeing it for removal anyway.

I made sure the camellia was not planted too deep, clipped off some diseased leaves and gave it a healthy boost of fertilizer rich with nitrogen and phosphorus. I plan to give the camellia lots of TLC and cross my fingers that it does much, much better in this spot than the rhodie.

I’ll report back on how it’s doing.

Here it is in its new location: