Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops and miniature hostas. For catalogues and announcements of events, please send your full name, location, and phone number (for back up use only) to carolyn@carolynsshadegardens.com. Click here to get to the home page of our website for catalogues and information about our nursery and to subscribe to our blog.
‘Autumn Spirit’ (fall blooming), the lead photo in the NYT article.
Readers will soon tire of me featuring myself in my posts, especially since the recent snowdrop post did just that. However, I am bursting with excitement and will explode if I can’t do it one more time. I was recently hired by the New York Times as a free lance photographer to provide the photos for a camellia article interviewing camellia expert Charles Cresson. The print article “Camellias Ready for a Cold Snap” appeared on January 17, 2013. One photo is on the cover of the Home section with the full article on page D4. If you read the small print you will see my name. You can find the on line version here. Be sure and click through the slide show.
Unnamed Korean Camellia japonica seedling (spring blooming)
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‘Berenice Boddy’ (spring blooming)
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While letting you know about the New York Times article, I thought this post would be a good place to list helpful articles on cold hardy camellias for easy reference. I did this in the snowdrop post, and it has already proved invaluable to me. I have interspersed the article names and links with some of my favorite camellia photos to keep the attention of those of you who don’t want to read up on camellias. I am also going to list the camellias covered in each article in case a reader is interested in a particular cultivar.
‘April Tryst’ (spring blooming)
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Unnamed Ackerman Seedling (fall blooming)
December 8, 2010
“Fall-blooming Camellias Part 1”
Camellia oleifera, Elaine Lee, Winter’s Darling
click here to read
‘Moon Festival’ (fall blooming), not hardy in zone 6.
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‘Winter’s Interlude’ (fall blooming)
December 17, 2010
“Fall-blooming Camellias Part 2”
Snow Flurry, Winter’s Dream, Autumn Spirit, Winter’s Snowman, Winter’s Charm, Scented Snow, Winter’s Beauty
click here to read
‘April Rose’ (spring blooming)
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‘Winter’s Snowman’ (fall blooming)
November 10, 2011
“Fall-blooming Camellias Part 3”
Snow Flurry, Winter’s Snowman, Winter’s Star, Winter’s Interlude, Moon Festival, Carolina Moonmist
click here to read
‘Elaine Lee’ (fall blooming)
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‘Pink Icicle’ (spring blooming)
December 2, 2012
“2012 Fall-blooming Camellias”
Winter’s Joy, Winter’s Snowman, Snow Flurry, Autumn Spirit, Survivor, Long Island Pink, Polar Ice, Ashton’s Ballet, Winter’s Rose, Winter’s Fire
click here to read
‘April Blush’ (spring blooming)
January 2006
“Camellias for Cold Climates” by William L. Ackerman
details Dr. Ackerman’s cold hardy camellia breeding at the US National Arboretum in Washington, DC, and describes each cultivar’s ornamental attributes and hardiness
click here to read
‘Winter’s Beauty’ (fall blooming)
January 17, 2013
The New York Times
‘Camellias Ready for a Cold Snap” by Anne Raver
excellent article profiling cold hardy camellias for the mid-Atlantic and discussing many additional cultivars not mentioned in my articles
click here to read
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I hope that this post will act as a central reference point where I can collect information on cold hardy camellias for the mid-Atlantic. I intend to add titles and links as I discover more information about one of my favorite topics. I can see already that I have neglected spring-blooming camellias in favor of the fall-blooming varieties.
Enjoy, Carolyn
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Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, US, zone 6b. The only plants that we mail order are snowdrops and miniature hostas and only within the US.
If you are within visiting distance and would like to receive catalogues and information about customer events, please send your full name and phone number to carolynsshadegardens@verizon.net. Subscribing to my blog does not sign you up to receive this information.
Nursery Happenings: The 2013 Snowdrop Catalogue is on the sidebar of the website and orders are being accepted. To view the catalogue, click here. There are a few spaces left in both sessions of Charles Cresson’s 2013 Winter Interest Plants Seminar. To view the brochure and register, click here.
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