article_snippet.sent: Tender kinds such as C. reticulata make outstanding conservatory plants.
article_snippet.sent: Though frost will damage open flowers, the buds and plants of most are bone hardy.
article_snippet.sent: The choice is vast, with 250 wild species and hundreds more garden varieties.
article_snippet.sent: has given rise to the hardiest and prettiest.
article_snippet.sent: I grow sumptuous red semidouble Adolphe Audusson and single white Alba Simplex, which thrive in containers in our bracing Lincolnshire climate.
article_snippet.sent: The Williamsii hybrids are also gorgeous.
article_snippet.sent: Developed in the Twenties by J. C. Williams, the former owner of Caerhays Castle in Cornwall, J. C. Williams, the former owner of Caerhays Castle in Cornwall have a greatly extended flowering season.
article_snippet.sent: I grow the first-named of his progeny, St Ewe.
article_snippet.sent: If the weather is mild, the single pink flowers appear in midwinter and continue until April.
article_snippet.sent: You may not have heard of St Ewe, but you're likely to know Donation, Britain's most popular Camellia variety.
article_snippet.sent: The semi-double, subtly veined pink flowers have a translucent alabaster gleam and a translucent alabaster gleam never stints on flower numbers.