Plant: Leslie Ann - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Leslie Ann'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A sasanqua camellia with glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long on slender reddish young stems. Its fall flowers are white tipped reddish lavender, semidouble with irregular petals through to peony form, a colouring that earned it the Ralph Peer Sasanqua Award. It grows best in partial shade sheltered from full sun and drying wind, in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid. Use it as an informal hedge, a screen, a foundation shrub or a container specimen.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 14 ft tall and 7 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7a-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A sasanqua camellia with glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long on slender reddish young stems. Its fall flowers are white tipped reddish lavender, semidouble with irregular petals through to peony form, a colouring that earned it the Ralph Peer Sasanqua Award. It grows best in partial shade sheltered from full sun and drying wind, in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid. Use it as an informal hedge, a screen, a foundation shrub or a container specimen.
- Flowers
- Flowers are white tipped reddish lavender, semidouble with irregular petals through to peony form, opening in fall.
- Foliage
- Simple, alternate, glossy leathery elliptical to ovate leaves 1 to 3 inches long with serrate margins, dark green and long lasting.
- Fruit
- A loculicidal woody capsule about 1 inch long, ripening in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Slender stems, often reddish to purplish when young.
- Pruning
- Camellias require very little pruning except for the removal of damaged branches; severe cutting back is done from mid February to about May 1, after flowering.
- Native range
- Japan
