Category Archives: Features

reprinted from Camellia News 165 – Winter 2004 Many Sydneysiders have heard of Elizabeth Bay House but how many are familiar with the name Alexander Macleay? Probably few, which is not surprising, consideriQg the limited publications to date about this … Continue reading →

reprinted from Camellia News No. 167 Autumn 2005 ‘Whether you’re rich or whether you’re poor, I want roses around my door’. (At the marriage of my mother’s son The bride said this in 51). Now he was young and free … Continue reading →

We wish to advise of John’s passing yesterday. He was 89 years old. John Alexander Hunt was a member of the Waverley Garden Club and Camellias Victoria. He was the cultivator of the Phyllis Hunt, Tony Hunt and John Hunt camellias . … Continue reading →

Thursday 17 September 2015: Conservation of Camellia Grove Nursery Stock, Camellias-R-Us Glenorie 1 pm -2.00 pm, Camellias-R-Us Nursery, 34 Harrisons Lane Glenorie, admission free and free cuppa. In an amazing feat of garden plant conservation under the Camellia Ark Project, … Continue reading →

Stephen Utick In 1773, Pedro Van-Zeller, a prominent businessman in Porto with links to England, acquired an estate on the left bank of the Douro River as a summer residence, the Quinta De Santo Inácio De Fiães. Thanks to the … Continue reading →

Photos of the prize winners will soon be on Camellias Australia’s Flickr Gallery https://www.flickr.com/photos/camelliasaustralia/ The NSW Camellia Research Society will be holding the Camellias Australia National Show in conjunction with their 46th Annual CAMELLIA SHOW, in the hall at Ravenswood School for Girls, … Continue reading →

17-20 September 2015 – registration form 2015 Congress Registration The NSW Camellia Research Society is hosting the 2015 Congress for Camellias Australia. The event will be based at the Sebel Resort and Spa on Hawkesbury Valley Way at Windsor – 50 … Continue reading →

19th Century Source Country: Spain (Galicia)  by Stephen Utick Within a few decades after its arrival in Britain in the early 1820s, the brilliant rose red Camellia reticulata ‘Captain Rawes’ was acquired by the aristocratic collectors of Europe. A most magnificent … Continue reading →

by Stephen Utick Source Country – Japan In 1830, the German physician Philipp Franz von Seibold (1796-1866) of the Dutch East India Company introduced into Europe a wonderful large size rose red double Camellia japonica from Japan, later given the name … Continue reading →

At the National Congress of Camellias Australia held in Canberra recently Dr Stephen Utick was awarded the Walter Hazlewood Award of Honour, which is awarded for exceptional service to Camellias Australia. Stephen’s dedicated work of identifying and labelling many hundred of … Continue reading →