My name is Yuri Panchul.
On the photo picture below you can see (left to right):
* my friend Shen Yinchun 沈荫椿, a Chinese-American working on a new book about camellias
* me (Yuri Panchul), a Ukrainian-American engineer, entrepreneur and horticulturalist
* my wife Sayaka, a Japanese-American artist
* our children
I have a collection of more than 100 sasanquas and other camellia plants, not including my own seedlings. I grow my plants on my backyard in Sunnyvale, California, mostly in containers. I am a member of The International Camellia Society, American Camellia Society, San Francisco Peninsula Camellia Society and The Camellia Society of Santa Clara County.
In addition to this site I write about sasanquas and other plants in paper publications. My articles were published in leading Russian horticulture magazines ‘Tsvetovodstvo’ (“Цветоводство”, “Ornamental Horticulture”) and “V Mire Rasteniy” (“В Мире Растений”, “The World of Plants”). I also helped a journalist Lili Singer from Los Angeles Times to write an article about sasanquas, that was published on November 30, 2006. In addition, my photo picture of sasanqua ‘Yuletide’ was published on January 10, 2007 in San Francisco Chronicle.
My main occupation is engineering. I got some publicity in the area of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) as a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of a Silicon Valley company called C Level Design, that I founded back in 1996 and that was sold to Synopsys in 2001. Right now I work in MIPS Technologies (2009) – a company founded by Stanford President John Hennessy. Since 1980s MIPS has been a pioneer in modern processor design – MIPS processors were used in Silicon Graphics computers, Sony TV sets, video game consoles, photo cameras, laser printers and numerous other devices.
Here is a photo picture of my garden, made in November 2007:
You can read more about me on my personal site http://panchul.com
HI
I was wondering if you’d mind if I used a few of your Camellias Susanquas photos in a gardening calendar I am designing. I am happy to provide a photo credit if you would so permit.
I look forward to your response.
Thanks
Lesley
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Bonjour,
We are a french nursery and we love camellia sasanqua.
Please take a look at our website and perhaps add it in your list of nurseries !
Bravo for your blog !
patrick
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Yuri Panchul reply on October 12th, 2010 8:59 am:
Thank you! I will add your nursery to the list!
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Dear Mr Panchul,
I am a very dedicated reader of your site and, of course, a camellia-lover (almost 200 plants). As far as your interesting new seedling is concerned, just today one of my seedlings (4 year-old) has given the very first two flowers which look a lot similar to yours. Isn’t funny?
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Thank you! Your seedling does look promising!
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Thank you for a detailed and well-documented resource. I wonder if you can help me understand (I’m a very green newbie) why the Ju Dee camellias at the Loganville Grower’s Outlet from Tom Dodd stock claim to grow to 24-26″, but the Ju Dee camellias at Home Depot are marked to grow 6-8′ tall? I’m looking for camellias for my small, small garden – is Ju Dee (I also bought Lauren and Ruth Grahams via Tom Dodd from Loganville) going to fit the bill?
Thank you kindly,
Kim
Bethlehem, GA
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Yuri Panchul reply on November 26th, 2010 9:40 pm:
Any Camellia japonica, including ‘Ju Dee’, given sufficient time can grow into a large tree. If what you said is true than I guess Loganville Grower’s Outlet people are either confused or untrustworthy. And by the way, this applies to Home Depot as well.
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May I suggest to Kim the tremendously slow-growing “Night Rider” cultivar? Besides its unusually deep dark-red (with blackish hues) small flowers, this camellia takes so much time before becoming a large shrub.
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Kim reply on August 16th, 2011 1:03 pm:
Thank you kindly for your response – I’m sorry I hadn’t seen this before. I will be delighted to look for the “Night Rider” cultivar and again, thank you for your suggestion.
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Dear Mr Panchul,
We are a group of Fractal Artists who are building an exciting new website.—- showing the remarkable correlation between fractals and organic material, mainly flowers and vegetables .
May we have your permission to use the image “Winter rose,” one of your stunning photographs? I have attached the link we would like to use to illustrate comparisons. You can see we are still at the raw and grisly state just now.
http://fractalessence.com/FractaFlowers_RealFlowers.html
Our aim is not one of financial gain, but to show beauty at its best in both fields. We will of course attribute you as the creator of the picture if you so agree.
Thankyou
Jenny Stewart
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Yuri Panchul reply on August 16th, 2011 12:25 pm:
Yes, you can use it. Thank you.
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Hi Yuri, I am a horticultural teacher living in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney Australia. I have had a special interest in genetic leaf variegation and leaf mutations in Camellias for many years. The image of the Stars & Stripes sasanqua flower is beautiful. I wanted to ask if you have that plant growing and if it produces seeds? I have not seen it listed in Australian nurseries. Thanks, Ken
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Hi sir
I wonder if you senf me about your publication such as magazines or articles. I want to know Russian horticulture technics.
Thanks a lot.
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