Howard was a Camellia person and the camellias are starting to set their buds around here.  I visited Howard a year before he passed away and we walked around his garden.  He had over two hundred and fifty camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and Magnolias, all growing in about eighteen inches of fir bark.  We talked about how they love good drainage a complete fertilizer and regular watering.  I noticed that he had bags and bags of fertilizer.  He offered to sell me one (fifty pounds), I declined.  He had invented a fertilizer and had to order a thousand pounds to get the company to mix it up for him. He always had some for sale.  I wish he was still around because I would buy two bags now.  Howard always won a ribbon at the Camellia shows.