On 2014-11-02 08:02:30 +0000, Chris Hogg said:

On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 06:42:50 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 2014-10-31 16:30:00 +0000, Chris Hogg said:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:15:37 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

We've had ceaseless sunshine all day today. It really is quite
beautiful and still warm, too. I've just been down the garden to
photograph what we think is a Camellia sinensis and the bees are busy
on it, too.

Lucky you! Uninterrupted fog/drizzle/light rain down here for the last
few days. Really murky and miserable. Cleared today, but grey overcast
skies, chilly and windy.

Post a picture of your C. sinensis? I have one, but too small to
flower so far. Have you tried making a brew? Tregothnan now produce
it. http://tinyurl.com/pc62x49 See your bank manager!

Here's a photo of it. It's pretty certainly C.sinensis var. assamica,
according to another Camellia expert - not Jennifer Trehane.
http://i59.tinypic.com/5oh99u.jpg


Oh _very_ nice. Mine's only about 18" high, and the leaves are small,
only 1 - 1½ " long, so it's got a way to go yet. Bought at Trevena X
nursery down the road; don't know where they got their stock from, but
perhaps Tregothnan is propagating them for more that just their own
use.

We can take no credit for ours! Hyams must have planted it and he was
very Camellia minded. He wrote a book about growing them with Neil
Treseder and seems to have obtained or swapped with a lot of west
country gardeners, including Agatha Christie and the Elmhirsts at
Dartington Hall. The other lovely Camellia that is flowering profusely
this year is C. sasanqua Narumigata.
http://i58.tinypic.com/2sanrki.jpg

and here's the bigger photo of part of the C. sinensis var. assamica
http://i58.tinypic.com/mt55k1.jpg

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon