Brookhaven Camellia Society

Welcome all. This site is for all persons interested in the camellia plant.

Please join us at any of our meetings which are scheduled on

2nd Tuesday of each month from September to April.

It's here!

Just received from the printer and ready for purchase, The Brookhaven Camellia Society "Recipes from our Hospitality Room" Cookbook.

This is a 153 page collection of recipes from our Camellia Society members and friends. If you have attended the hospitality room while waiting to judge, you have probably sampled many of the dishes that are included. A copy can be yours. Price: $12/book or two copies for $20.

Special thanks to Billie Smith and her committee for taking on this project of collecting, sorting, proofing and getting this book printed. Also, to all of those who contributed recipes, the pages would have been blank without your unselfish contribution of recipes.

And, the winner is:

Charlotte Allen - Wesson, MS

For the Kay Kaberlein painting (left) at the Spring Garden Extravaganza in Brookhaven drawing on April 18, 2009

Camellia Judges' School held on April 4 in Brookhaven!

Thanks to Max and Marie Mizell, Elaine and Jim Smelley, Bob Stroud and Jim Campbell for coming up and conducting the sessions for the School. Paper work has been sent to ACS so we can continue to build new and re-accredited judges.

The Camellia Judges' School graduated Six Novice and 12 Re-accredited judges.

Special congratulations to our new group of novice judges:

Ann Boyd - Brookhaven

Barbara Breaux - Bogue Chitto

Alice Creighton - Semmes, AL

Susan Jacobs - Slidell, LA

Jean Saja - Raymond, MS

Bruce Smith - Brookhaven

2009 American Camellia Society Convention was held this March in San Francisco

Here are a few pictures from Patti Perkin's visit to some of the garden tours at the conference

Patti Perkins in garden at ACS convention One of the Tour Gardens at ACS Conference Roger Vinson ACS President at Convention Garden Tom Perkins Camellia at Modesto, CA Camellia Show

Thanks to everyone for making the 46th Annual Brookhaven Camellia Show a success.

We had 1055 Blooms entered and more than 500 visitors over the two days. We received very nice comments about the bloom quality and the hospitality. Here are a few pictures from the 2009 Show.

Kaye Kaberlein and Shirley Estes had head table blooms at the recent Covington, LA Camellia Show.

There were more than 800 blooms at the show so competition was tough.

Congratulations to both for their winning blooms.

Pictures from 2008 Brookhaven Show

For Norman Winter's Clarion Ledger article on having the Camellia Trail through Mississippi...Click here.

If you have an interest in growing, propagating or just enjoy the variety of camellias, then this is the site for you. Brookhaven has long been known for the abundance of camellia that seem to appear everywhere you look. This site is dedicated to promoting interest in these wonderful flowers.

Would you like to identify some camellias in your yard and be able to identify flower form? Click here for images of a few of the most common japonica varieties in our area. Click here for images and descriptions of the different forms of camellias.

A few pictures from 2006, 2005 & 2004 Camellia Shows here

Here are a few pictures from the 2005 Pensacola Camellia Show - Click here.

Here are some pictures from the 2006 & 2005 Baton Rouge Camellia Show - Click here

Here are some pictures from 2006 New Orleans Camellia Show - Click here

Did you ever wonder about who the people are for which camellias are named? Click here to see the real Helen Bowers and also a couple of pictures from the 2005 Mobile Camellia Show.

We had a great trip to the Burden Gardens. Click here to see some of the pictures from the trip.

Here are a few camellia people -- can you connect named camellias to them?

This page was last updated on 04/26/09.