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‘Quarterly gules and in the first and fourth quarters a cross potent argent’. This is the description of the Crosse family's coat of arms, who lived in Wigan, Liverpool and Lathom in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, from whom I descend. Heraldry enjoys its own peculiar and arcane language, for which translation is called:

‘Gules’ means red.

'Argent’ means silver.

The Royal Horticultural Society speaks of the camellia in rather glowing terms:

Among the most glamorous shrubs, camellias are upright or spreading, glossy-leaved evergreens, with white, pink or red flowers. Impressive in shrub borders, they are also ideal for containers and you can also grow them more informally in light woodland beneath deciduous trees.