In general, when and how to trim, prune and cut back Camellias is all about making sure you do so in such a way that your prized specimen will bloom again the following spring. Get the timing wrong on this and you could delay flowering until the year after next!
The same goes for a hard pruning, do so after flowering but this can still shock the plant preventing it from flowering the following year,
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