Very disappionted and sad with the money and time I spent to grow this tree since I do love M. ALBA.

Thax!!!

I did water all my plants thoruoghly before freezing and water them again and again during next daytime. Was your plant well watered?

What we having was dry cold. I broke the ice to prevent it possibly to crack my procelain basin( see picture). All my camellias and albas seemingly have no sign of welting or leaf dropping. Under the shade cloth tent and overhead trees, the plants might also have slightly more protection.

Mine is damaged much seriously than yours. I will show you a pic in the wkend.

I watered it once a wk with little water since during the winter the plant should go sleeping and needs less water. And our land is not freezed in Sourther CA.

My another M. ALBA (5 feet tall) in the 5 G pot facing north is fine although it only has several leaves on it.

The damaged one in the backgard is getting the wind from west. Maybe that was the problem.

Thanks again.

This is the cold-damaged M. ALBA. It was very healthy two wks ago. But now...

It will come back in spring?????

I gave two alba plants to my brother 5 years ago. During one winter, one plant dropped all leaves to nothing. Then the new leaves were coming back nicely. I hope that would be also the same case for your and me.