Camellia crapnelliana Conifers Give 'California Dawn' the standard

Give 'California Dawn' the standard camellia treatment with one nod to the reticulata blood: dappled shade to a fair amount of sun

There is a particular pleasure in an unnamed plant

timed to the spring run of shad up the rivers

In zones 9 and warmer the shrub behaves as a large

Camellia crapnelliana Conifers Give 'California Dawn' the standardTwo camellias do most of the work in American gardens, Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua, in countless named forms. The Far East holds far more, and Woodlanders is among the few nurseries offering the lesser known species to gardeners here. Camellia crapnelliana, the Crapnell camellia, is one of the most distinctive: a slow, upright evergreen first described from Hong Kong Island and named for the collector Crapnell. The species is grown as much