Slow growing – Camellia of the Fall and Sun

Crimson, Dwarf, Hybrid, Pink, Seedling, Single, Slow growing

A new Sasanqua seedling with unusually short internodes and long leaves

November 10, 2018February 19, 2021 by Yuri Panchul

A description from Backyard Hybridizer – an article by Yuri Panchul in American Camellia Yearbook 2017: “Camellia hybridization is not only about flowers. The value of some seedlings is in unusual leaves. A seedling YP0032, with the tentative name ‘Sunnyvale Dark Knight’, does not even look like a typical camellia. […]

Bicolor, Columnar, Crimson, Double, Drooping, Dwarf, Formal, Globular, Hybrid, Hybridizers, Pink, Seedling, Single, Slow growing, Species, Spreading, Striped, Upright, Variegated flowers, Variegated leaves, White

Backyard Hybridizer – an article by Yuri Panchul in American Camellia Yearbook 2017 – full text

November 4, 2017February 3, 2020 by Yuri Panchul

Backyard Hybridizer An article by Yuri Panchul in American Camellia Yearbook 2017 Growing your own seedlings is an intriguing addition to one’s camellia hobby. You don’t have to be a nurseryman to hybridize, select, register your own cultivars, and then market them to the camellia-growing community. You can do it […]

Botany, Cultivar, Dwarf, Giveaway, Slow growing, Species, Spreading, White

Featured annual giveaway: ‘Tiny Gem’

November 17, 2013November 17, 2013 by Yuri Panchul

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 […]