Thanks for putting all this up, Jim. I had an unnamed Camellia hedge until yesterday. The history is that I dug a batch of unknown o/g camellias from a nurseryman in West Cork who was retiring, back in 2012. I got them to Dorset in a pig trailer and planted them along a roadbank under oaks, colours at this point a mystery. One with wobbly narrow leaves turned out early with small hippy-double white flowers, might be ‘Mrs William Thomas’.
I’m yet to ID three plants of a shiny soft-red upright tight double which the roe seem to like best, or one otherwise similar strong growing single red (that I take to be a surviving reversion, the field was of an age) which I’d probably pick for the hedge if starting again.
Now thanks to you I can pronounce the variety that forms most of hedge to be ‘Bar who owed Lee two’. I’m not sold on the flower but, for a hedge, these fat round leaves are held well and the plant has a good natural habit. Thank you.
Jim's Camellias 
Thanks for putting all this up, Jim. I had an unnamed Camellia hedge until yesterday. The history is that I dug a batch of unknown o/g camellias from a nurseryman in West Cork who was retiring, back in 2012. I got them to Dorset in a pig trailer and planted them along a roadbank under oaks, colours at this point a mystery. One with wobbly narrow leaves turned out early with small hippy-double white flowers, might be ‘Mrs William Thomas’.
I’m yet to ID three plants of a shiny soft-red upright tight double which the roe seem to like best, or one otherwise similar strong growing single red (that I take to be a surviving reversion, the field was of an age) which I’d probably pick for the hedge if starting again.
Now thanks to you I can pronounce the variety that forms most of hedge to be ‘Bar who owed Lee two’. I’m not sold on the flower but, for a hedge, these fat round leaves are held well and the plant has a good natural habit. Thank you.
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