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Camellias 2016/17
« on: November 20, 2016, 01:42:18 PM »
Camellia season has started here with Camellia sasanqua 'Winter's Interlude'. The soft focus was unintentional.
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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2016, 06:23:41 PM »
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2016, 07:09:06 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on November 20, 2016, 06:23:41 PM
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2016, 07:18:05 PM »
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2016, 07:37:33 PM »
Quote from: johnralphcarpenter on November 20, 2016, 01:42:18 PM
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2016, 01:26:10 PM »
Camellia sasanqua 'Rainbow'.
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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2017, 02:05:24 PM »
Camellia 'Cornish Snow'.
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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2017, 02:37:55 PM »
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2017, 02:46:24 PM »
Very nice Shelagh. I think it's 'Brushfield's Yellow'.
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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2017, 01:18:52 PM »
Camellia 'Bob Hope'.
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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2017, 10:15:07 AM »
Love them both, him and the Camellia.
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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2017, 02:45:34 PM »
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2017, 02:48:04 PM »
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2017, 07:21:51 PM »
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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Re: Camellias 2016/17
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2017, 12:59:49 PM »
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
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