Gloire de Nantes. japonica My first one out. On a house wall; never gets any sun; builders' mess for soil; now up to first floor and as wide; trained flat. Starts with just a few flowers in December. The best for leaf.
JC Williams. williamsii Started in January but has met with a number of frosts. Now covered with flowers. I like the grace of singles.
This is my Dr King, it’s in a pot on the patio, so quite small as Camelias go but it’s been in the go for 3/4 years now and is very healthy. I said I’d post as some people seem to have posted very similar flowers and said they didn’t know the variety- maybe they were this.
Sherlock, yours looks very similar to Bonomiana though mine is a bit paler. (Can't upload a photo for some reason. Will try later.) Lovely whatever it is
Beautiful Dr King, @ciaranmcgrenera. Mine is still deciding whether it wants to open or not!
I think my next to open will be Dahlonega, which hasn't flowered before. Exciting.
A few more have opened. Don't know the names of any of these either, sorry, though both the pink ones have varigated leaves.
The disadvantage of many white flowers is than they die ugly. This is worse if they stay on the plant rather than dropping. (Although this dropping is a tidy-up issue.)
Can anyone recommend a good white camellia that avoids this problem?
@bédé I am decidedly not an expert, but I recently bought Silver Anniversary: the flowers seem quite long-lasting, and don't rapidly become brown mush. Okay, they start to brown a bit, but not horribly so: I like this plant. (I used to live on northwest Spain, where camelias are widespread: I agree, when happy they have very beautiful foliage, but many have flowers that rapidly become ugly.)
One next door neighbour, to whom I don't speak - it's Surrey innit - has 2 camellias up againts out boundary fence. The lady of the house has just dug up both, but not before they had both come under the fence.
Do camellias sometimes have a graft? Do they sucker?
On this border, I have a 2.5m lleylandii hedge, closely trimmed, that is 40 years old. It has had a good innings; yew-substitute.. Shade and poor soil have taken their toll and I am now slowly replacing this hedge with yew plugs, now 4 years with me. Where the two camellias are coming through, I am going to enlist them as hedge plants. There is this one, and almost from the same spot, a very small pink fkower with a williamsii leaf. They luckily happen to be where the yew plugs failed.
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Beautiful Dr King, @ciaranmcgrenera. Mine is still deciding whether it wants to open or not!
I think my next to open will be Dahlonega, which hasn't flowered before. Exciting.
Unknown japonica
Flower a bit smaller than normal this spring.
One next door neighbour, to whom I don't speak - it's Surrey innit - has 2 camellias up againts out boundary fence. The lady of the house has just dug up both, but not before they had both come under the fence.
Do camellias sometimes have a graft? Do they sucker?
On this border, I have a 2.5m lleylandii hedge, closely trimmed, that is 40 years old. It has had a good innings; yew-substitute.. Shade and poor soil have taken their toll and I am now slowly replacing this hedge with yew plugs, now 4 years with me. Where the two camellias are coming through, I am going to enlist them as hedge plants. There is this one, and almost from the same spot, a very small pink fkower with a williamsii leaf. They luckily happen to be where the yew plugs failed.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."