Camellias

A brick pavia driveway offers off-road parking and impeccable landscaped grounds featuring azaleas, camellias, pieris and roses.

Manchester Boddy, then the publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, and Richfield Oil Company President Charles S. Jones bought 300,000 camellias from Uyematsu.

There are no boat rides, organized walks among the camellias or private events such as weddings — just an informed confrontation with a horrific part of America’s past.

Utick said the first camellias probably arrived in Sydney in the late 1700s on ships arriving in the fledgling colony, but “it is unlikely that they survived”.

Couple Gigi and Bob Talbert look at camellias at the Aiken Camellia Show.

Here, where fantails (piwakawaka) often flit at head-height, Ms Shelah has underplanted a fir, tall camellias, rata and akeake with some of her favourite shade-lovers — hydrangeas, hostas, maidenhair fern ("It’s so pretty") and fuchsias.

Never cultivate around camellias or azaleas due to their shallow roots.

The arboretum contains a wide collection of rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias in a range of colours beneath the broad boughs of the 18th century parkland oaks.

Blooms were abundant among a huge and colourful variety of azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias, hoheria, eucryphia many other shrubs.

Camellias are hardy, but somewhat delicate, bring joy but, according to some, can be intimidating.

The gardens bristle with rhododendrons, camellias and magnolias, which look their best in spring.