Camellia Festival launched at Chiswick House

What better way to enjoy a splash of colour than at the annual Camellia Festival at Chiswick House.

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00:00, 10 FEB 2012
Updated13:37, 27 SEP 2013

What better way to enjoy a splash of colour than at the annual Camellia Festival at Chiswick House.

This year’s festival celebrates beautiful blooms in the setting of the spectacular Chiswick Gardens Conservatory, designed by Samuel Ware in 1813. To complement the festival, the newly restored Italian Garden, created for the 6th Duke of Devonshire in 1814, has been replanted with an early display of spring flowers.

The camellia collection is probably the oldest in the Western world and includes the unique Middlemist’s Red, originally brought to Britain from China in 1804 by Londoner John Middlemist, a nurseryman from Shepherd’s Bush.

It is one of only two in the world known to exist – the other being in Waitangi in New Zealand.

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