A few years ago I realised that the Mount Edgcumbe plants of Camellia sasanqua 'Fukuzutsumi' and Camellia oleifera were in fact the same and that neither name was correct. It led eventually to the name Camellia sasanqua 'Tago-no-tsuki' and to a back story riddled with gaps which suggested the variety had been imported into the … Continue reading An old friend at Trewithen.
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Notes from the park – 25/10/2024
A new camellia season is well and truly under way so it's time to put finger to keyboard and bring you up to date on the state of play in the national collection at Mount Edgcumbe. I don't go up there very often in the summer; nothing is flowering, the grass is long and the … Continue reading Notes from the park – 25/10/2024
Notes from the park – 26/4/2024
The tail end of the camellia season always seems to bring with it a flurry of tasks that need to be completed before other competing interests become impossible to ignore. My big task, as far as Mount Edgcumbe is concerned, has been to identify and map the Camellias in the Earl's garden. This is the … Continue reading Notes from the park – 26/4/2024
Notes from the park – 21/3/2024
My intention of producing regular videos of the Mount Edgcumbe camellia collection has fallen by the wayside somewhat. Bad weather has restricted how often I have been able to visit and I have only had time for a more limited set of tasks. When I visited yesterday I had a list of plants I wanted … Continue reading Notes from the park – 21/3/2024
Mount Edgcumbe Video Diary – February 2024
I had intended posting a video each month during the Camellia flowering season but the first half of January was such an alternation of frosty spells and storms that the flowers were either not opening or getting trashed if they did. I had two days when I did some filming, 30th January and 1st February, … Continue reading Mount Edgcumbe Video Diary – February 2024
For the first time.
Planting of new Camellias at Mount Edgcumbe has been somewhat sporadic in recent years but there has been enough to ensure that every year there are things flowering for the first time. This year has been slightly different in that there are a few things flowering, or at least in bud, that are far from … Continue reading For the first time.
Single, white and troublesome.
When I was at Mount Edgcumbe yesterday I noted that two of the single white japonica camellias were beginning to open. 10th November is early for japonicas to be opening but that wasn't them main reason I chose to dig a little deeper. The two plants both had names on them that appeared to be … Continue reading Single, white and troublesome.
Mount Edgcumbe video diary – November 2023
https://youtu.be/AHS09m7Wki4 My second filming trip to the park this autumn was on November 10th. In spite of weeks of wet and windy weather, the camellias were putting on a respectable show. Some of the earliest flowerers, like 'Hugh Evans', 'Plantation Pink', 'New Dawn' and 'Baronesa de Soutelinho' were past their peak but plenty of others … Continue reading Mount Edgcumbe video diary – November 2023
The Mount Edgcumbe collection, a video diary.
October 2023 https://youtu.be/RzzzJFuHiL0 I am going to try to create a short video at roughly monthly intervals to give you a better idea of the camellia collection in its setting. My first attempt was filmed on 9th October 2023 when the autumn flowering 'sasanqua' camellias were just beginning to perform. It's just short of 11 … Continue reading The Mount Edgcumbe collection, a video diary.
On the home front.
Mostly I blog about the Camellia collection at Mount Edgcumbe, but I do actually have a few Camellias of my own. 25 miles further into Cornwall, in a garden of around 500m2, as compared to Mt Edgcumbe's 3.5 million m2. I have managed to squeeze in a couple of dozen, which still leaves me room … Continue reading On the home front.
Jim's Camellias 