Yuletide Camellia - black spots on leaves - please help!

Hi, this is a Yuletide camellia in remembrance of a well-loved pet and so any advice to rescue it would be so appreciated. It’s always been so healthy but recently I’ve noticed all of its leaves are covered in small black dots. ☹️ all leaves have it but some worse than others and are dropping off despite being otherwise green. Thank you so much in advance for any help!

 

They are just elderly evergreen leaves doing what they do. Nothing to worry about. They'll drop off. The new growth is lovely and healthy.

 

@noisette47

Thank you. You perhaps can’t see from the pictures but all of the leaves have some amount of black dots on them. Some of the leaves drop off when you gently touch them. It’ll be bare!

 

I don't know whether there is an effective fungicide available in UK but if not, the only way to control fungal spot diseases is good hygiene i.e. regularly collect up all infected leaves. (Cue lots of organic advice about spraying with milk, nettle infusions and garlic juice and goodness knows what ). If the plant sheds a lot of leaves, you can help it to replace them by keeping it well watered and fed.

 

Roseclear is something that might work, it contains an insecticide and a fungicide, but it will only protect the new foliage, the spotty ones are bound to fall.
Spring is the time most evergreens shed their leaves, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Maybe a spray or two mid summer and again next spring, early, about February, it also stops the fungus that makes flower buds drop.