Area 11 – Car Park Environs

There are twelve Camellias in and around the Barrow Centre Car Park which don’t fit with any other section so I’ve created section 11 for them. There are a few problems:

(11-002) ‘Comte de Gomer’ was labelled ‘Blood of China’, just one of several wrong attributions it has had in the collection.

‘Rosa Baroveira Nella’ (11-009) is not in the Camellia Register and I could find no reference to the name anywhere. In 2023 I saw a group of plants at a local garden centre with proper colour printed labels showing the same name and matching photograph. They were Dutch imported stock, so where the name comes from or whether it’s accurate is anybody’s guess.

‘Saturnia’ (11-011) is another example of a plant formerly and wrongly known as ‘Twiss Cornwall’

(11-004) was labelled ‘Cornish Cream’, which appears to be an invalid name for what I take to be either ‘Jury’s Yellow’, ‘Brushfield’s Yellow’ or ‘Gwenneth Morey’.

(11-013) has never had a label and I have so far been unable to identify it.