Camellias, Japonicas

Brushfields Yellow
Brushfields Yellow

Brushfields Yellow

  • Cream
  • Compact
  • Anemone form

Brushfields Yellow produces an abundance of blooms on a compact bushy plant. Its habit makes it ideal for a pot and looks good year round. The name might suggest this is yellow; cream would be a far better description. A great performer and recommended.

Debutante
Debutante

Debutante

  • Pale pink
  • Peony form
  • Early flowers

Debutante is an old favourite with its full peony form flowers. It always sends out a flower very early in the season to let us know its all about to happen, always welcome. It has light green foliage with serrated edges.

Dr Tinsley
Dr Tinsley

Dr Tinsley

  • Soft pink
  • Semi-double
  • Great for cool climate

Dr Tinsley flowers profusely on a compact upright bush. The medium sized blooms are nearly white in the centre, gradually deepening outwards to mid pink at the edge. There is often some petaloids in the centre along with the stamens and some of the petals have a creped effect.

Elegans
Elegans

Elegans

  • Pink
  • Anemone form
  • Large

Elegans has large pink blotched white blooms with a mass of petaloids in the centre. It has a semi weeping habit, especially with the weight of its many flowers, making a good choice where it is viewed from below (maybe planted above a retaining wall or similar).

Elegans Splendour
Elegans Splendour

Elegans Splendour

  • Soft pink edged white
  • Serrated petals
  • Frilly centre

Elegans Splendour has fantastic flowers of musk pink with a white edge. In the centre there is a mass of frilly pink and white petaloids. It also has interesting serrated leaves and a habit that can include horizontal or even weeping branches. Well worth growing.

Emperor of Russia Variegated
Emperor of Russia Variegated

Emperor of Russia Variegated

  • Glowing red
  • Peony form
  • Hardy

Deep red, marbled white and the occasional yellow stamen set against dark green foliage make for a stunning bloom on Emperor of Russia Variegated. It has strong upright growth and is as tougher than most, a real survivor.

Fran Homeyer
Fran Homeyer

Fran Homeyer

  • Formal Double
  • Soft pink

A nice formal double Camellia with glossy foliage. Good upright though compact growth.

Great Eastern
Great Eastern

Great Eastern

  • Red
  • Semi-double
  • Tough

Great Eastern is a wonderful Camellia producing lots of flowers every year. Deep rose red with white stripes or marks on the paler inner petaloids. Vigorous upright growth and toughness make this a good choice.

Guillio Nuccio
Guillio Nuccio

Guillio Nuccio

  • Very large
  • Wavy petals
  • Almost red

Guillio Nuccio was named after the great Camellia breeder in California of Nuccios Nurseries. Flowers 15cm across and petals that are irregular and wavy make this a spectacular plant. It has prominant yellow stamens in its centre and some upstanding large petaloids. In time will form a large rounded bushwith large pointed deep green leaves.

Hikaru Genji
Hikaru Genji

Hikaru Genji

  • Informal Double
  • Pink edged white

Hikaru Genji has deepish pink, streaked deeper pink flowers edged with white. Its centre has stamens or petaloids or both.