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Camellias

Sixty-five camellia listings are here. Twenty-seven carry the Japanese Camellia name and twenty-one the Sasanqua Camellia name. The other seventeen carry neither prefix, which is a labelling habit rather than a third kind of camellia: most of them read as sasanquas or japonicas on their own product pages. Five are a second listing of a plant already here under its species name, and each of those species listings runs more sizes and starts below 5L: Setsugekka, Star Above Star, Beatrice Emily, Something Special and Desire. Thirteen of the seventeen offer 5L and nothing smaller, so look for the species listing of a cultivar before you settle on the bare one. The real outliers sit in this group too. Camellia hiemalis hiryu belongs to a third species group, neither japonica nor sasanqua. The tea plant is here. So are Fairy Blush and Cinnamon Cindy, lutchuensis hybrids with fine leaves and scent; Fairy Blush clips into a ball or a low line far more convincingly than japonica cultivars do.

Reading the sasanquas by their wood

Sasanquas are the part of the range bought for hedges, screens and walls. Colour is the easy part. Wood decides the job. Rose Ann builds firm, evenly made growth and holds a rounded shape with almost no correction, which suits a bed that will not get much attention. Jennifer Susan is soft and arching, laid flat along espalier wires or spilling over a pot rim, and it browns along its windward face on an exposed western boundary. Exquisite builds in tiers, so the flowers are held out along the stems where a footpath sees them. Egao is open by mid autumn, weeks ahead of the japonicas. Wahroonga stays compact and is grown only as 70mm and 200mm stock, so it is a courtyard or large pot plant.

The japonica side of the grid

Most japonicas get shaped rather than sheared, and the range reflects it. Nuccios Jewel opens mid to late in the season, after the first rush, on a slow spreading bush better suited to a large pot or a shaded courtyard bed than a clipped run. Brushfields Yellow disappoints anyone expecting a daffodil; the cream sits in a packed dome of small petaloids ringed by broad white guard petals. Man Size is a miniature in spite of the name, reduced in leaf, flower and frame, and it takes a tighter clipped face than the broad leaved japonicas manage. Kingyo-tsubaki is bought for foliage, its leaf tips divided like a goldfish tail, and it exists as one 200L specimen from a single farm.

What the size ladder means for a slow plant

Camellias move slowly, so the grade you buy is the number of seasons you skip. Forty-five of the sixty-five listings offer a 200mm pot and thirty-five a 300mm, and that band is where the choice of cultivar is genuinely wide. Above it the field thins: fourteen listings reach 400mm and nine reach 150L. Nineteen carry 70mm stock, which is the sensible way to plant a long run of one cultivar, since small camellias settle faster than most people expect where the soil has been prepared properly.

Pure Silk Standards and the Jennifer Susan equivalent are trained onto a clear stem, in 300mm to 400mm only. The head has to be kept round by hand, two light trims a year rather than one hard cut, and the stem wants a stake until it thickens, so read those as formal plants for a doorway or a driveway; the wider trained range sits in topiary and standards. Anyone who needs a screen closed over in two summers should buy something faster. Pruning windows, spacing and petal blight are in the guide to camellia hedges and winter flowers.

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