With thanks to commentor GVG:
These are pictures from the show in Gainesville last weekend. It was the American Camellia society’s national show this year so a few more people than usual.
Unfortunately in my selfish view that meant their were more people buying the plants at the crack of dawn and i didn’t find any on my special want list. But the blooms were nice when winter is gray.
My taste is fixed on formal doubles and i like stripes and variation, so i tend to photograph what i think is beautiful. Where i can, i get the name so i can buy it!
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What’s going on in your garden (indoor / planning / retrospective), this week?
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
Thank you; these blooms are gorgeous!
Parfigliano
Merrick Garland will stop or not stop this.
MerricK is the saviour
sab
Beautiful.
When I was a child in Florida my dad put in a tiny camellia grove. Ten or so trees. Then we had to move north. I doubt if it survived.
Jeffg166
I am waiting to see if the hardy Camellias I have in Philadelphia survived the Arctic week. They are hardy to 10°f. It was in single digits this week for a few night. I hope this place is enough of a micro climate to get them through.
The hardy gardenias look like they made it. They are also hardy to 10°f. They sit in the bed in from of the porch which faces southeast.
Yesterday I found this which is hardy to my zone 7.
plantsbymail.com/products/miss-scarlett-illicium?_pos=3&_psq=Illicium&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Not in stock at the moment. I asked for an email when it is in stock.
J.
Wow! Those camellias are gorgeous!
eclare
Those blooms are beautiful! My mom loved camellias, she had about ten bushes. Wow they bloomed like crazy.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Holy cow. Those are so beautiful that I can’t believe they’re real
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
LAC
Good morning! How beautiful – thanks for sharing!
stinger
I don’t know camellias, but I really love striped roses, such as Variegata di Bologna, Ferdinand Pichard, Honorine de Brabant, Scentimental, Fourth of July, etc. So I’m immediately drawn to the top and bottom images, and a couple in between. But I must say that maybe it’s the photography, but Mary Alice Cox (second image) looks like whipped cream. Luscious! I want to fall into it face first!
Thank you for these gorgeous images, GVG! A delight on an overcast dawn here in the Frozen North.
stinger
@Jeffg166: Fingers crossed for you!
satby
Very beautiful gvg, thanks for sharing them.
Wish they grew in my area.
Geo Wilcox
@stinger: That top white one is my 100% favorite, and I bitch all the ti9me about Indiana’s boring white flowers.
JeanneT
Amazing blossoms: those photos are stirring my early yearnings for spring.
KSinMA
Beautiful!! Thank you!
Miki
Swooning here …. Truly perfect flowers.
delphinium
Lovely photos GVG!
Ha! I was thinking it looked like frosting.
Mike S. (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
Beautiful! I love Camelias. The second pic of the white one with “stacked” petals is amazing. We used to go every February to Longwood Gardens when the Camelias in the main conservatory bloom. But their selection of 20 or so is nothing like you all grow down south. Like @Jeffg166: I have a Korean Cameila, a red one called ‘Korean Fire’ but it’s flowers are rather small and nothing like these although it has been fully hardy here in Berks County, PA for over 20 years, the flower buds have been blasted but cold weather a couple of times. That may be the case again this year as we’ve had several nights with a low of 1 degree F.
JAM
I love the coral pink one second from the end. Thanks for the pictures!
Jeffg166
@stinger:
Out to check on the plants. They look like they survived. The thaw is this week. I should know for sure soon.
This is a photo of the flower from a nursery. It’s hardy to zone 7.
alamy.com/camellia-japonica-tricolor-superba-camellia-tricolor-superba-pink-flowers-with-red-blotche…
stinger
@Jeffg166:
Yesss!
Trivia Man
It is very interesting to see so many together. Clearly very closely related yet each very distinctive.
Miss Bianca
I was today years old when I learned how truly gorgeous camellias are.
MazeDancer
Most beautiful! Thanks for pics!
Madeleine
Oof! Coming on these from the Mars/Musk post, I was hit! by the beauty!
When I lived in St Louis, I was breath-taken by the camellias in the Botanical Garden.
Gvg
@stinger: I love striped roses too but they are hard to find. My striped tea rose Mme. Driout reverted to solid and is very thorny so that is doubly annoying. Honorine Brabant has died twice and the others are usually out of stock for years at a time.
Cowgirl in the Sandi
Lovely images for a gray Sunday morning. Thanks Gvg
Gvg
The style of flowers I photographed are called formal doubles or rose form camellias. It’s only 1 of 4 main flower classifications that they come in. My taste is very specific and hasn’t changed in years and I have a small yard so I don’t photograph or try to love the rest. I have too many loves already, azaleas, roses, ferns, hollys, many natives, osmanthus, michelina’s and bromeliads.
If you like the stacked affect of some of the flowers, there is one that is almost too extreme called fircone. It doesn’t always set a perfect flower, but when it does, the petals are stacked symmetrically with a raised center so that it almost looks like a little pinecone. It’s a little weird to me. I prefer the ones that look like flowers.
MCat
@Jeffg166: They’re beautiful.
Dan B
All Camellias are hardy in Seattle although C. sinensis, Tea, is touchy but Camellia japonica whose flowers you show hang on and develop diseases that brown and blacken the petals so other species that drop their flowers cleanly are better. The diseases come from cool and damp weather
It’s nice to see your healthy flowers.
sab
@stinger: I was suddenly excited that camelias can grow in the north, but then I saw Philadelphia is in a warmer climate zone than NE Ohio. Who knew? Sigh.