Camellia crapnelliana Conifers and the whole plant trembles

and the whole plant trembles at the slightest breath of air

A note on the name

Like other sweet orange and trifoliate orange crosses

timed to the spring run of shad up the rivers

When Woodlanders began in 1980

Camellia crapnelliana Conifers and the whole plant tremblesTwo camellias do most of the work in American gardens, Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua, in countless named forms. The Far East holds far more, and Woodlanders is among the few nurseries offering the lesser known species to gardeners here. Camellia crapnelliana, the Crapnell camellia, is one of the most distinctive: a slow, upright evergreen first described from Hong Kong Island and named for the collector Crapnell. The species is grown as much