У меня большое событие – пришло письмо из Американского Общества Камелий, что они официально зарегистрировали два сорта камелий, которые я вывел, после 20 лет отбора и оценки нескольких сотен сеянцев. Я мечтал быть создателем новых сортов цветов с детства, когда я читал роман Дюма “Черный Тюльпан”, книжку про селекционера георгин […]
Category: Cultivar
The American Camellia Society approved for registration two new Camellia sasanqua cultivars: ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’ originated by Yuri Panchul
The American Camellia Society approved for registration two new Camellia sasanqua cultivars: ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’ originated by Yuri Panchul. ‘Silicon Valley’ produces rare, for a sasanqua, formal double flowers, and ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’ makes globular loose peony-shaped flower, especially when grown in semi-shade. Both plants tolerate sun much better […]
‘Panaché de Gaujacq’ – one of only four striped sasanquas I ever saw
A couple years ago I went to Nuccio’s and Tom Nuccio gave me a scion of a rare Camellia sasanqua ‘Panaché de Gaujacq’, This is only one of four striped sasanquas I ever saw: ‘Stars’N’Stripes’ from Nuccio’s, ‘Autumn Carnival’ from Camellia Forest Nursery, ‘Panaché de Gaujacq’ and my own seedling […]
The former King of Red among sasanquas, Camellia x vernalis ‘Yuletide’
Camellia x vernalis ‘Yuletide’. Before ‘Mieko Tanaka’ appeared, ‘Yuletide’ was the closest to true red color cultivar in C. sasanqua group. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California in 1963. A seedling of ‘Hiryu’.
Kira-Shiro-Kantsubaki, 吉良白寒椿
C. x hiemalis ‘Kira-shiro-kantsubaki’. 吉良白寒椿. Names means “Kira’s White Winter camellia”. Released in 1960s by Kira Firm of Nishio City. Medium-compact, well-formed spreading plant with double white flowers of pretty shape. A modest but reliable seed producer. I use it in my hybridization program because of habit, good shape of […]
Camellia sasanqua ‘Midnight Lover’
Camellia sasanqua ‘Midnight Lover’. A new introduction from Camellia Forest Nursery. The color is crimson pink, not true red like in ‘Yuletide’ and ‘Mieko Tanaka’. The flower shape is interestingly asymmetrical. This is a nice plant, but I will probably give it to somebody since 1) I already have both […]
Featured giveaway – ‘Miss Ed’
Camellia sasanqua ‘Miss Ed’ is a very unreliable beauty. Sometimes (like 1 time out of 100) you get a strikingly beautiful flower from this plant, but 99 times out of 100 you don’t. Most ‘Miss Ed’ flowers suffer from a combination of not particularly well-formed petals with deformed stamens. I […]
Featured giveaway – ‘Sarrel’
Camellia sasanqua ‘Sarrel’ is a nice low-growing, almost creeping plant with large pink double flowers. Unfortunately it does not feet my breeding objectives (small leaves) so I gave it away. Here is what Camellia Forest Nursery catalor says about it: “This spreading plant could easily be kept under two feet […]
Featured annual giveaway: ‘Gingetsu Perkins’
I got this plant from Tom Nuccio. Tom told me that he got it from a person named Perkins under the name ‘Gingetsu’. Obviously this plant is not ‘Gingetsu’ because the real ‘Gingetsu’ is a well-known white Camellia sasanqua, from Higo-sazanka group of cultivars, originated in Japanese province of Kumamoto. […]
Featured annual giveaway: ‘Tiny Gem’
This new little camellia looks very unusual for anybody except probably a hardcore Camellia botanist. The flowers of ‘Tiny Gem’ are tiny, stamens have orangish tint, small dark leaves are unusually serrated, stem nodes and internodes do not look like anything in japonica-sasanqua-reticulata world. In addition, ‘Tiny Gem’s’ growth habit […]
Anemone form Camellia oleifera ‘Jaune’
Camellia oleifera is a relative of Camellia sasanqua. This gorgeous anemony-form ‘Jaune’ cultivar with a ball of yellow petaloids is very rare in the United States. Three years ago I got a scion in our local camellia club, grafted it, and finally it is blooming in my garden. A British […]
A miniature Camellia sasanqua ‘Jewel Box’ grafted on ‘Kanjiro’ tree
I mentioned this sasanqua in an article Camellias for Dwarfs and Elves that was published in American Camellia Yearbook 2011: ‘Jewel Box’ is the smallest of sasanqua cultivars – its typical leaf is just 30×12 mm as comparing to a more regular leaves of sasanqua cultivar ‘Jean May’ that measures […]