Camellia fraterna 26/7 Restock or a hot bank

or a hot bank

closer to a young pine than to the broad leaves of most bottlebrushes

this hybrid opens wide light-pink blooms

some barely there

A living thread connecting the ecological history of two continents

Camellia fraterna 26/7 Restock or a hot bankCamellia fraterna is a camellia stripped back to wild beginnings, a species from the hills of eastern China far removed from the big, blowsy blooms of the garden japonicas and sasanquas. Where those carry a few large flowers, this one covers slender, upright branches in a snowfall of small, single, white flowers, faintly pink outside and softly fragrant, that arch the stems with their sheer number. The small, pointed evergreen leaves and open, airy