A BLOG ABOUT THE NATURE OF ROBERTSON, NSW, AUSTRALIA
ABOUT THINGS WHICH GROW HERE, NATURALLY; SOME OF MY SPECIAL INTERESTS - NATIVE PLANTS AND INSECTS, AND CULTIVARS OF PEONIES AND ROSES WHICH I GROW.
AND ABOUT LIFE IN ROBERTSON, TOO.
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Camellia williamsii hybrid Jamie
I bought my plant from Camellia Grove Nursery when they were in Mona Vale, or on Mona Vale Road, somewhere in northern Sydney. I fear the continuity of that fine nursery has been lost.
However, I still an happily growing this beautiful hybrid.
It was a chance seedling, raised by Professor E.G. Waterhouse, at his garden in Gordon. He named it after a grandson, I believe, from memory of what I was told on one of the Open Days at "Eryldene".
Here is a link to one from a New Zealand Nursery
Unusually for one of the many "williamsii hybrids" bred by Prof. Waterhouse, it is a brilliant scarlet red colour. Most of the other Waterhouse X williamsii hybrids are "fuchsine pink"
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