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Winter moves early into spring in South West England.
The climate is mild, the air moist and clean, and the soils generally acid. This provides a perfect climate for camellias, the queens of the spring flowering shrubs. They thrive here. Visit many of the older established gardens in Devon and Cornwall and you'll see camellias of tree size, glossy evergreens studded with exotic flowers. The first western travellers to China and Japan must have seen these plants as impressive.