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: Spreading
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 […]
A new Sasanqua seedling that attracts attention with bright globular shape flowers
My new Camellia sasanqua seedling: Yuri Panchul YP0044, tentative name ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’. It was praised by well-known nurserymen and camellia collectors Tom Nuccio, Daniel Charvet and Brad King. UPD: This seedling was officially approved for registration with the American Camellia Society on January 9, 2020, ACS registration number 3175. The […]
Backyard Hybridizer – an article by Yuri Panchul in American Camellia Yearbook 2017 – full text
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 […]
‘Shikoku Stars’ under the frost
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 […]
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 […]
A new striped Camellia sasanqua seedling #0108
I got a new striped Camellia sasanqua seedling in my garden. Right now its name is #0108. Striped sasanquas are rare so it is an important find. I observed only two other striped sasanquas – ‘Stars’N’Stripes’ from Nuccio’s Nurseries and ‘Autumn Carnival’ from Camellia Forest Nursery. #0108 is a seedling […]
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 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 […]
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 […]