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Sun Camellias – a book published by Southern California Camellia Society

Published on December 24, 2011 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: books, California, Southern California Camellia Society, USA, Yuri Panchul..

Southern California Camellia Society published a 50-page book called Sun Camellias about Fall-blooming Camellia sasanqua. I contributed to this book 28 photo pictures (mostly from my garden) and a small text about camellia breeders from my website www.sazanka.org. If you are interested in purchasing this book from the Camellia Society, you can do it on their website www.socalcamellias.org in the section Make a Purchase.

Общество Камелий Южной Калифорнии опубликовало книжку на 50 страниц под названием “Камелии солнца” oб осеннецветущей камелии горной или Camellia sasanqua. Я сам внес вклад в эту книжку – 28 сделанных мною фотографий камелий (преимущественно из моего сада) и небольшой текст о селекционерах камелий с моего сайта www.sazanka.org. Если вы хотите приобрести книжку Общества Камелий, вы можете сделать это на их сайте www.socalcamellias.org в разделе Make a Purchase.

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An article in The Camellia Journal about the convention of American Camellia Society

Published on August 20, 2009 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: American Camellia Society, American National Shows, California, Foster City, San Francisco Bay Area, Shows and conferences, The Camellia Journal, USA..

I contributed some photo pictures to The Camellia Journal, a quarterly publications of the American Camellia Society (ACS). I made those pictures during the March ACS convention in Foster City, California. You can see one of the pictures published in the last issue of the magazine – a picture with the group of ACS attendies. I included both the cover of the magazine and the article about the convention below. You can see my other posts about the convention here:

Part 1. Bob Ehrhart’s Camellia Garden.
Part 2. Gallo Camellia Garden.
Part 3. Group pictures and the first reception.

All pictures are clickable:

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A new book about camellias is published in China

Published on June 14, 2009 by Yuri Panchul. 3 Comments. Tags: American Camellia Society, Barbara Tuffy, books, California, China, San Francisco Bay Area, Shen Yinchun, Shen Yuanru, USA, Y.C. Shen, 沈荫椿, 沈渊如..

A new book about camellias is published in China. It is written by Shen Yinchun 沈荫椿, a Chinese American living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I (Yuri Panchul) contributed more than 30 photo pictures to this great publication. The preface is written by Barbara Tuffy, a recent president of the American Camellia Society. American camellia people usually call Shen Yinchun “Y.C. Shen” or simply “Y.C.”

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American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 3. Group pictures and the first reception.

Published on April 10, 2009 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: American Camellia Society, California, Foster City, San Francisco Bay Area, Shows and conferences, USA..

Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.

Back in March 19-21 I attended the annual meeting of the American Camellia Society. This year it was in Foster City near San Francisco. You can also read about the event on the website of the American Camellia Society.

At the end of the conference I made two group photos. You can click to enlarge:

I also made many photo pictures of the conference attendees during the first reception on March 19:

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American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 2. Gallo Camellia Garden.

Published on April 10, 2009 by Yuri Panchul. 1 Comment. Tags: American Camellia Society, American National Shows, California, Camellia Society of Modesto, Gallo Winery Garden, Gardens, Shows and conferences, USA..

Continued from Part 1.

Back in March 19-21 I attended the annual meeting of the American Camellia Society. This year it was in Foster City near San Francisco. On Saturday, March 21 all the conference attendees went to the city of Modesto, California for the National Camellia Show hosted this year by the Camellia Society of Modesto. The show was in the Administrative Building of Gallo Winery. As a part of the conference we took a tour in the beautiful Gallo Camellia Garden and had a party inside Gallo Wine Cellar. You can also read about the event on the website of the American Camellia Society.

My photo pictures of the Gallo Camellia Garden, National Show and Gallo Wine Cellar:

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American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 1. Bob Ehrhart’s Camellia Garden.

Published on April 8, 2009 by Yuri Panchul. 1 Comment. Tags: American Camellia Society, Bob Ehrhart, California, Foster City, Gardens, growing seedlings, Northern California Camellia Society, private gardens, San Francisco Bay Area, Shows and conferences, USA, Walnut Creek..

Back in March 19-21 I attended the annual meeting of the American Camellia Society. This year it was in Foster City near San Francisco. During the first day we went to the garden of Robert and Linda Ehrhart in Walnut Creek, California. Bob Ehrhart’s garden is one of the largest private collections in the United States. It has several thousand large plants growing mostly in containers. Bob’s website is www.camelliagrower.com. You can also read about Bob Ehrhart on the website of the American Camellia Society.

My photo pictures of the event:

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John Wang – a camellia hybridizer living in San Francisco Bay Area

Published on February 28, 2009 by Yuri Panchul. 1 Comment. Tags: California, China, East Bay, Grafting, growing seedlings, hybridizing, John Wang, San Francisco Bay Area, Tama no Ura, USA, yuhsienensis, 攸县油茶..

On January 25, 2009 I visited a well known camellia hybridizer John Wang, a Chinese American living in San Francisco Bay Area.

John Wang places camellias inside the house to hand pollinate them. Room temperature increases the chance of success and no insects can interfere. John does not believe in open pollination of camellias – he chooses parents very carefully because he cannot afford to plant thousands of chance seedlings like for example Nuccio’s Nurseries does:

This camellia hybrid, created by John Wang, is a seedling of Tama-no-ura:

Another seedling from John Wang has a rare yellow tint:

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Found an interesting article about a Japanese-American nurseryman Toichi Domoto

Published on September 17, 2008 by Yuri Panchul. 3 Comments. Tags: bonsai, California, Dwarf Shishi, East Bay, Ernest Wertheim, history, Japan, Julius Nuccio, Nurseries, San Francisco Bay Area, Suzanne B. Riess, The Bancroft Library, Toichi Domoto, Tom Nuccio, University of California Berkeley, USA..

Toichi Domoto

A Japanese-American nurseryman’s life in California: floriculture and family, 1883-1992

With Introductions by Julius Nuccio and Ernest Wertheim
Interviews Conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1992

The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley

http://tinyurl.com/4ohuw6
Copy at http://sazanka.org/pages/toichi_domoto

This sasanqua cultivar, ‘Dwarf Shishi’, was originated by Toichi Domoto in 1988:

It is excellent for bonsai.

Also I found a very likely photo pictures of Toichi Domoto (need to check with Tom Nuccio) on http://tinyurl.com/4795g8. I am almost sure this is the same one (born 1902, high school in East Bay):

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‘Nodami Ushiro’ – a Higo-like sasanqua

Published on September 16, 2008 by Yuri Panchul. 1 Comment. Tags: California, Domoto Nursery, Higo, Japan, Jennifer Trehane, Kumamoto, Nodami Ushiro, Nuccio's Nurseries, pink, semi-double, single, Stirling Macoboy, Toichi Domoto, USA..

Camellia sasanqua ‘Nodami Ushiro’. Introduced by Domoto Nursery, California, 1934, but is originally from Japan. Stirling Macoboy believes that the name means “a backward glance” in Japanese, but he is probably incorrect. Since I cannot find this name in Japanese sources and my Japanese wife tells me that Japanese people are not likely to name a flower this way (“mi” meaning “body”), I guess that the original name was different. From browsing the history of Toichi Domoto I got an impression that he did not know Kanji well because he was a second-generation Japanese-American. Because of it, Toichi Domoto probably made a naming mistake when he imported it.

It is difficult to explain what is so special about ‘Nodami Ushiro’. It is a single pink camellia with a lot of single pink competitors – ‘Plantation Pink’, ‘Cleopatra’, ‘Tanya’ and others. However Jennifer Trehane in her camellia book calls ‘Nodami Ushiro’ “a subtle, sophisticated camellia”. Where does this sophistication come from? I have an explanation.
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Big white single

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: Apple Blossom, Basil Hodgins, big white single, Bill Wylam, California, Filoli Garden, first gallery, Fukuzutsumi, Girls, Japan, Jisuke Minagawa's Chabaika Taishu, Minagawa Chinka'en Nursery, Monrovia, Narumigata, Nuccio's Nurseries, reticulata, Saitama, Setsugekka, single, Tokyo, white, Yokohama Nursery..

↑ Narimugata. Japan, introduced 1898. Originated in Tokyo, spread to Saitama. Name means “Narumi Bay”. Pentaploid, very vigorous, was crossed with C. reticulata to get ‘Girls’ group of hybrids.

↑ Setsugekka. The meaning in Japanese is “Flower white as a snow reflected by the Moon”. Introduced in Japan. Originated in Tokyo, spread to Saitama. Appeared in 1898 in Jisuke Minagawa’s Chabaika Taishu, then at Minagawa Chinka’en Nursery.

↑ Apple Blossom (from Monrovia). The Japanese name is ‘Fukuzutsumi’, meaning “a bag of good fortune”. The clone available in the West was imported in 1891 from Yokohama Nursery by Victorian nurseryman Basil Hodgins and sent to Bill Wylam in California. Clone available from Monrovia Nurseries greatly differs from clone from Nuccio’s Nurseries and Filoli Garden.

↑ Apple Blossom (from Filoli). The Japanese name is ‘Fukuzutsumi’, meaning “a bag of good fortune”. The clone available in the West was imported in 1891 from Yokohama Nursery by Victorian nurseryman Basil Hodgins and sent to Bill Wylam in California. Clone available from Monrovia Nurseries greatly differs from clone from Nuccio’s Nurseries and Filoli Garden.

White double

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: California, double, first gallery, Japan, Mine-no-yuki, Nuccio's Nurseries, white..

↑ White Doves. The Japanese name is ‘Mine-no-yuki’ meaning “Snow on the Ridge”. Introduced in 1898.

↑ Little Pearl. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California.

Single pinks

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 1 Comment. Tags: Alabama, Australia, California, Cleopatra, Coolidge Rare Garden Plants, E.G. Waterhouse, first gallery, Hugh Evans, Japan, Kosaku Sawada, pink, Plantation Pink, single..

↑ Cleopatra. Imported from Japan in 1929. First made available for sale in the United States by Kosaku Sawada in Alabama in 1934.

↑ Plantation Pink. Originated by E.G. Waterhouse, New South Wales, Australia in 1948.

↑ Hugh Evans. Originated in Coolidge Rare Garden Plants, California in 1943.

Peony pinks

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: Bert Jones, California, Emperor Hirohito, first gallery, hiemalis, Ishii's Engei Daijiten, Japan, Jisuke Minagawa, Kansai, Nuccio's Nurseries, peony, pink, Rosette, Saitama, Showa, Showa Supreme, Showa-no-sakae, USA..

↑ Showa Supreme. A seedling of ‘Showa-no-sakae’, originated in Nuccio’s Nurseries, California in 1956.

↑ Showa-no-sakae. C. x hiemalis. The name means “Glory of Showa Era” in Japanese. This cultivar was named after Japanese Emperor Hirohito, whose reign got the title “Showa”, “the era of enlightened peace”. According to Ishii’s Engei Daijiten (1950), Showa-no-Sakae was introduced by Jisuke Minagawa in Saitama in 1937 from a seedling originated in Kansai area (?).

↑ Rosette. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California in 1980.

↑ Bert Jones. Introduced in 1967

Yuletide and Hiryu

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: Australia, California, first gallery, Hiryu, Japan, Kanjiro, Kansai, Nakayama, Nuccio's Nurseries, peony, pink, red, single, true red, USA, variegated, vernalis, Yuletide..

↑ Yuletide. C. x vernalis. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California in 1963. A seedling of ‘Hiryu’.

↑ Hiryu. C. x vernalis. Introduced in Nakayama, Japan in 1847. Originated from Kansai, spread to many places. In Australia it is called ‘Kanjiro’ (the real ‘Kanjiro’ is different). A parent of ‘Yuletide’.

Bicolor

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: bicolor, California, double, Double Rainbow, first gallery, Japan, Navajo, Nuccio's Nurseries, Old Glory, single..

↑ Navajo. Imported from Japan by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California in 1956. The original name is lost.

↑ Old Glory

↑ Double Rainbow. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California.

Egao group

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: California, double, Egao, first gallery, Fukuoka, Grady's Egao, Japan, Kurume, Nuccio's Nurseries, pink, sport, USA, vernalis..

↑ Egao. C. x vernalis. Name means “smiling face” in Japanese. Originated in Kurume or Fukuoka. Imported to the United States by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California in either 1972 or 1977 (?).

↑ Grady’s Egao. C. x vernalis. A sport of Egao.

Other species and hybrids

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: Bhutan, bicolor, brevistyla, brevistyla form rubida, Bunzo Hayata, Buttermint, California, Camellia Forest Nursery, Chang Hung Ta, China, Christmas Rose, Cohen Stuart, creamy, de Grijs, double, first gallery, Fujian, Gingetsu Perkins, grijsii, Gu Zhi Jian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Henry Fletcher Hance, hiemalis, Hsen Hsu Hu, Hubei, Hunan, Japan, Jiangxi, Kai Mei's Choice, Kampuchea, Katsuhiko Kondo, Kiss, kissii, Laos, Longquan, Ming Tien Lu, misnamed, Myanmar, Nathaniel Wallich, Nepal, North Carolina, Northern India, Nuccio's Nurseries, P. L. Chiu, pink, puniceiflora, reticulata, sasanqua-reticulata hybrid, Shishigashira, Sichuan, Sikkim, single, small leaves, Southeast Asia, Species, striped, Thailand, USA, Vietnam, white, Williams' Lavender, Xiao Tiao Jiang, yellowish, You Xian, Yuh Shan, yuhsienensis, Yume, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Zhenzhu Cha..

↑ C. kissii. Wallich 1820. Was callected by botanist named Kiss. Wide range in Southeast Asia – SE China (Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan), Myanmar, Bhutan, northern India, Kampuchea, Laos, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand and Vietnam. Highly variable, flowers have creamy yellowish tint, flowers in winter.

↑ Buttermint. A hybrid of C. kissii. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California in 1997. Keeps creamy yellowish tint, inherited from C. kissii parent.

↑ C. grijsii. Hance 1879. Was collected in 1861 in Fujian by C.F.M. de Grijs. Distributed in China: Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangxi. Tidy upright bushes, impressed veins, related to C. yuhsienensis that has larger flowers, there is a double form called ‘Zhenzhu Cha’. Grows to 11 ft (3 m) high, flowers winter to spring. C. yuhsienensis. Hu 1965. Discovered on the mountain Yuh Shan (You Xian) in Hunan in 1960s. Distributed in China: Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Guangdong. Best quality oil of any species, grows to 11 ft (3 m) high, flowers winter to spring, parent of ‘Yume’. Chromosome numbers: 2n = 30, 45, 75 and 90 (Gu, et al., 1988; Kondo, 1990; Xiao, et al., 1991).

↑ Yume. C. x hiemalis ‘Shishigashira’ x C. yuhsienensis. The name means “Dream” in Japanese. The flower has a very unusual alternation of white and pink petals. Originated in Japan.

↑ C. puniceiflora. Chang 1981. Distributed in China: Zhejiang, Hunan. Small leaves, grows up to 2 m (6 f) high.

↑ C. brevistyla form. rubida. C. brevistyla (Hay.) Cohen Stuart (1916) form. rubida P. L. Chiu (1987). Distributed in China in hilly areas of Longquan in Zhejiang Province. Chromosome number: 2n = 30 (Kondo, 1977).

↑ Gingetsu Perkins. A misnamed cultivar, sent to Nuccio’s Nurseries, California. Possibly a sasanqua-reticulata hybrid.

↑ Kai Mei’s Choice. C. sasanqua x (C. sasanqua x C. reticulata). Originated in Camellia Forest Nursery, North Carolina.

↑ Stars’N'Stripes. A chance seedling of ‘Christmas Rose’ (Williams’ Lavender x Shishigashira). Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California.

Low growing and small foliage

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: California, columnar habit, Coolidge Rare Plants, double, Dwarf Shishi, first gallery, Japan, Jewel Box, low growing, N#9820, Nuccio's Nurseries, Pasadena, pink, Sasanqua Compacta, sasanqua-tenuiflora hybrid, Shishigashira, short internodes, single, Slim'N'Trim, small leaves, Starry Pillar, Tanya, Toichi Domoto, Twinkle Twinkle, white..

↑ Dwarf Shishi. A seedling of ‘Shishigashira’. Originated by Toichi Domoto, California in 1988.

↑ Jewel Box

↑ Twinkle, Twinkle. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California.

↑ Sasanqua Compacta. Very short leaf internodes. From Nuccio’s Nurseries, California.

↑ Slim’N'Trim. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California.

↑ Starry Pillar (N#9820). A chance seedling, might be a sasanqua-tenuiflora hybrid. Columnar habit. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries.

↑ Tanya. Introduced by Coolidge Rare Plants, east Pasadena, California in 1937. Produced from a seed imported from Japan in 1927.

Foliage

Published on December 28, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: California, first gallery, Nuccio's Nurseries, Silverado, unusual foliage..

↑ Silverado. Light gray green small leaves. Originated by Nuccio’s Nurseries, California.

Sasanqua breeders

Published on October 9, 2007 by Yuri Panchul. 0 Comments. Tags: Alabama, Australia, breeders, California, Camellia Forest Nursery, Camellia Society of the Potomac Valley, Clifford Parks, David Parks, Jack Williams, Jim Nuccio, John Robb, John Williams, Joseph Nuccio, Julius Nuccio, Kai Mei, Kai Mei's Choice, Maryland, National Arboretum, North Carolina, Nuccio's Nurseries, oleifera, Paradise Baby Jane, Paradise Plants, Paradise Sayaka, Tom Dodd Jr, Tom Dodd Nurseries, Tom Dodd Sr, Tom Nuccio, Twin Oaks Nursery, USA, William L. Ackerman, Winter’s Rose..

Well-known sasanqua breeders include:

1. Nuccio’s Nurseries’s founders Joseph and Julius Nuccio, and their children Tom, Jim, and Julius, all living in Southern California. The best-known Nuccio’s sasanqua cultivar is Yuletide – the only really red sasanqua. We wrote an article about their operation and maintain a list of sasanqua cultivars and Camellia species available from Nuccio’s.

2. Dr. William L. Ackerman studied genetics of camellias since 1960s and created cold-tolerant cultivars using Camellia oleifera as a parent. Our favorite Ackerman’s hybrid is ‘Winter’s Rose’ – a beautiful formal pink miniature sasanqua. Dr. Ackerman lives in Maryland, pictures of some of his cultivars are available on the website of a local Camellia Society of the Potomac Valley and on the website of the National Arboretum. We also prepared a photo album of some of his cultivars based on pictures Dr.Ackerman donated to us for publication.

3. Camellia Forest Nursery, Clifford Parks, David Parks and Kai Mei created sasanqua-reticulata hybrids, including ‘Kai Mei’s Choice’. Clifford Parks wrote many articles about Camellia genetics. They are located in North Carolina.

4. Paradise Plants, John Robb created beautiful sasanqua cultivars in Australia, including Paradise Sayaka
and dwarf Paradise Baby Jane. Unfortunately Paradise Camellias are not available in the United States at this moment, but will be available soon via Ball Seed Company, the contact name is Peter Kruger.

5. Tom Dodd Nurseries, Inc was started in 1920 with 40 acres of land by Tom Dodd, Sr. The nursery remained owned by the Dodd family until August of 2004 when it was purchased by Jack Williams and John Williams, owners of Twin Oaks Nursery in Wilmer, AL. Tom Dodd Nurseries introduced a dozen of new sasanqua cultivars.

Tag Archive for 'California'

Sun Camellias – a book published by Southern California Camellia Society

An article in The Camellia Journal about the convention of American Camellia Society

A new book about camellias is published in China

American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 3. Group pictures and the first reception.

American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 2. Gallo Camellia Garden.

American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 1. Bob Ehrhart’s Camellia Garden.

John Wang – a camellia hybridizer living in San Francisco Bay Area

Found an interesting article about a Japanese-American nurseryman Toichi Domoto

Toichi Domoto

‘Nodami Ushiro’ – a Higo-like sasanqua

Big white single

White double

Single pinks

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Yuletide and Hiryu

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