Kamelienhaus Pillnitz
Centuries-old camellia tree sheltered in winter by a fifty-four-tonne glasshouse that rolls on rails.
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This guide to the Pillnitz camellia house in Dresden centres on a winter night in January 1905, when the old wooden shelter around one of Europe's oldest camellias was being heated against a hard Saxon frost. It also reaches back to the journeyman gardener who planted the tree here in 1801, and to the Japan legend that Kew's records do not back up. Best heard standing beside the rails of the glasshouse.
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