poorly camellia

Try muflon and wild boar! I'm desperate to find a natural looking fencing solution to keep them out of my meadow,where I'm going to start permaculture gardening.There's also a problem with a 'mole vole'? I need to look that one up lol I've been shown the damage they do and I don't want it coming up under my veggies! campanile taupe is the french for one.If anyone is interested in coming out to SW France to set it up,I'd be happy to house you

should have read campagnol

I think you would need to dig a narrow trench a foot or so down and push a fine galvanised wire mesh fence down into it.

Have a look at this site, it relates to badger proof fencing, but the principle is the same.
www.wildlifefencing.co.uk/pages.php?pageid=4

Gardening in SW France is so different from UK gardening. As I've learned slowly over the years. More pests and a bigger variety. Climate, soil etc. and everything grows so fast! including giant weeds.
The last 2 posts give good advice about fencing - we had to fence off our veg. patch like that, and have given up on roses in an open bed. The deer eat all the new buds. Put the best in pots.
I don't think there's much you can do about moles (or mole voles.)
Are you in the Lot?
This is a separate topic really - suggest you start to buy the Rustica , a weekly french gardening magazine.

ps to above - I think Hibouknits is touting for business - see cost of gardening thread where he/she says they're in Cheshire

I did wonder, from the phraseology. I'm so used to leaping in with gardening queries, and I know voles can be a problem as I have them. And moles. And yet we survive.

If it is a new plant then it might not flower for the first couple of years.

It could be the soil, try ericaceous compost.

Here is a blog post that I wrote about camellias

simonjarvis.co.uk/2020/02/20/camellias-planting-and-care/