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The Golden Camellia (“Camelia d’oro”), which gives its name to this nursery, is actually the yellow camellia (Camellia chrysantha or nitidissima): a very rare, upright species that was planted in the garden of Villa Anelli in the 1960s. It blooms every five years, not very abundantly: the flower is small, yellow, simple, fleshy, while the leaves are shiny and full of veins.

La Camelia d’Oro is also the name of an inn mentioned in the novel “Shogun”, a heroic saga set in a thousand-year-old Japan. The Camelia d’Oro was the place where the protagonist of the book, in an intense moment of his life, rested for a while with his partner, while defending the ideals of his country. Today, for Orsola and Andrea, Camelia d’Oro is a synonym of a “pleasant retirement”.
Their nursery features more than 400 species and cultivars.

The wide choice of plants offered, most of which were obtained by propagating the plants already growing in Villa Anelli by layering, is based on organic cultivation which does not require any growth regulators.

Camelias are available both with single stem, grown in pots of different sizes according to each variety and with multi stems, always in pots of different diameters.

The special substrate used is made of 50% black earth, 30% blonde peat, and 20% pumice.

The pot productive section is actually located on Fondotoce plain, while some tunnels are in Verbania Fondotoce, on via della Chimica, at “Compagnia del Lago”.

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