Cultivars, seedlings, botany and horticulture of Camellia sasanqua and its relatives
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 […]
One December morning (to be precise on the morning of December 9, 2009), I went to my garden and saw this beautiful scene: a Camellia sasanqua ‘Shikoku Stars’ under the frost. Don’t you think it is a Winter Wonderland? This camellia is actually not a cultivar but a selection of […]
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 […]
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 […]