Camellia japonica 'Tama no ura' 25/5 Restock and dozens of regional nurseries

and dozens of regional nurseries from Louisiana to Idaho all carry the plant

and the long stamens and evening scent suggest a partnership with night-flying moths as well

Callistemon rigidus 'Clemson' is a compact to medium evergreen shrub hung with brilliant red

with handsome olive-green compound leaves topped in spring by spikes of bright indigo-blue

one of the lesser-known kinds Woodlanders keeps in circulation for American gardeners

Camellia japonica 'Tama no ura' 25/5 Restock and dozens of regional nurseries'Tama no ura' is among the most celebrated of all wild found camellias, and the story is part of the plant. In 1947 a charcoal worker came upon a single old Camellia japonica, by repute some two hundred years old, growing deep in the forest near Tamanoura on Fukue Island in the Goto archipelago, off Nagasaki. The flowers stopped him: single, bright red, and edged crisply in white, a clean picotee never before recorded in the wild. Selected and