{"id":23826,"date":"2017-01-22T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23826"},"modified":"2017-01-22T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:09:26","slug":"california-camellia-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-camellia-time\/","title":{"rendered":"California Camellia Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/camfez.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s camellia time in California where you&#8217;ll find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-camellias.html\">festivals, parades and flower shows<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to the small trees and shrubs recognized for their beautiful flowers similar in appearance to roses. There are 100-300 species and approx. 3,000 camellia hybrids around the globe, but one special place you may want to see them is Sacramento, known as Camellia City.<\/p>\n<p>Californians can easily grow camellias by knowing where and when to plant them. The state&#8217;s\u00a0growing zones range from 6-10 with camellias especially thriving in zones 7-10 from the Central Valley to coastal regions (Monrovia Ice Angels series are hardy to zone 6.)\u00a0Camellias need slightly acidic soil that is well-drained and do best with partial shade.<\/p>\n<h2>Camellia is the official flower in these cities:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bakersfield<\/li>\n<li>Tustin<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento<\/li>\n<li>Temple City<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Camellias uses:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tea<\/li>\n<li>Herbal remedies to treat bacterial infections and asthma<\/li>\n<li>Tea oil for cooking<\/li>\n<li>Oil to sharpen knives and cutting blades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s camellia time in California where you&#8217;ll find festivals, parades and flower shows\u00a0dedicated to the small trees and shrubs recognized for their beautiful flowers similar in appearance to roses. There are 100-300 species and approx. 3,000 camellia hybrids around the globe, but one special place you may want to see them is Sacramento, known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}