Camellia japonica Large Shrubs or a window where the

or a window where the spring fleece and light fragrance can be enjoyed close up

The hard wood that earned the ironwood name once went into tool handles

dim spot where a full-sized fern would overwhelm

since a deep taproot makes an older hickory very hard to move

Camellia japonica Large Shrubs or a window where theAn honest admission to start: we do not know her name. Camellia japonica has been bred and named for the better part of three centuries, the roll of registered cultivars runs well into the thousands, and behind those stand thousands more good selections that were grown, loved, handed over a fence, and quietly parted from their labels along the way. This is one of the latter, a pale pink japonica of real quality and no surviving paperwork, the kind of