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Specific Families and Genera => Rhododendron and other Ericaceae => Topic started by: johnralphcarpenter on November 20, 2016, 01:42:18 PM
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Camellia season has started here with Camellia sasanqua 'Winter's Interlude'. The soft focus was unintentional.
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Does anyone grow Camellia rothorniana?
I bought it this year so it hasn't been through a hard frost with me. The label said not to let it get frosted but how cold is cold?
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Does anyone grow Camellia rothorniana?
I bought it this year so it hasn't been through a hard frost with me. The label said not to let it get frosted but how cold is cold?
It needs an 's' in there Mark. Camellia rosthorniana, and I assume it's 'Cupido' syn. 'Elina'? It's fairly new, originally bred, I think, in California, and looks as though Thompson and Morgan are turning it out in numbers. No-one that I've seen on the Web has given any guidance on hardiness, which does make me wonder!. Are you growing it in a pot? If so I'd be inclined to keep it close to the house and let it have shade and warmth from the brickwork.
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Yes that's it. I bought it in Homebase as quite a large plant. It flowered OK this year. I don't want to lose it. I'll move it closer to the house
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Camellia season has started here with Camellia sasanqua 'Winter's Interlude'. The soft focus was unintentional.
Nice photo and nice plant Ralph.
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Camellia sasanqua 'Rainbow'.
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Camellia 'Cornish Snow'.
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Glad this thread has been started, lovely pictures.
I really like Camellias about 9/10 years ago a friend bought me a single stem, probably from a supermarket for my birthday. It has grown steadily each year and is now about 4ft high. Each year I have checked it for flower buds, nothing at all just leaf buds. I said to Brian this is it's last chance no flowers this year out it goes. So no flower buds and Brian bought me my favourite Camellia for our Anniversary. He was about to pull out the old one and replace it when, hiding at the back against the fence, he found four flower buds. So now I have 2 Camellias in the border the original is still to open but here is my present from Brian.
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Very nice Shelagh. I think it's 'Brushfield's Yellow'.
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Camellia 'Bob Hope'.
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Love them both, him and the Camellia.
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My original Camellia finally bloomed for the first time. All flowers wrong way round and facing the fence and only lasted 3 days but beautiful all the same.
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This knack some flowers have for facing away from their fond owners is a real nuisance!A very elegant double white, Shelagh. I like it.
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My Camelia has so many flowers they are bending the branches. It was bought as a flowering twig and kept in the house in case it was tender. That was a long time ago. My Mum, who worked in large houses, told me of a driveway to the house which had an avenue of camelia. Ours was put in the garden and is now about 10ft. high. I think it is C. japonica Donation.
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I believe 'Donation' - perhaps the most widely grown camellia in the UK, is a x williamsii hybrid from Borde Hill
Some history here ....
http://www.caerhays.co.uk/page.cfm?page=Camellia_Information (http://www.caerhays.co.uk/page.cfm?page=Camellia_Information)
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Thanks Maggi, it,s the memory you know. Not as good as it was in my day. Img. 1020471, camellia in garden. Img. 1020472, close up of flowers.
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An absolute corker you have there, Ian. Darker than my notion of Donation but that may just be me. :-\
What a great number of flowers- one could hardly fit in any more!
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I have already consigned two lots of fallen flowers to the bin. They turn to mush if they are put on the compost heap.
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Very few flowers on our 'Donation' this year. I blame my 'assistant' for over-liberal use of the shears last year :-X
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Camellia japonica 'San Dimas', and Camellia 'Nuncio's Carousel'.
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Camellia japonica 'Pink Perfection' last evening. Got this from a friend who brought Camellias in from Louisiana in about 1972.
'Nuncio's Carousel' is a cracker Ralph.
john
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Camellia japonica from cw seed on Daechong Do, Korea, the northernmost stand and holding great promise for areas just north of the Camellia "just barely hardy" zone. About a dozen plants from Philip MacD.'s collection.
johnw
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The first of this winter's Camellias, Camellia hiemalis 'Shishi-gashira'
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The first of this winter's Camellias, Camellia hiemalis 'Shishi-gashira'
Very nice. 19C in the garden at lunchtime today in what has been the first totally dry day for ages. Rain due tomorrow ::)
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Camellia sasanqua 'Rainbow'
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Camellia sasanqua 'Winter's Interlude'.
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