Plant: Susy Dirr - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Susy Dirr'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A vigorous, bushy sasanqua camellia carrying glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long on slender reddish young stems. Large formal double flowers of bright pink open early in the season, giving colour through fall and into winter. 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. The dense growth makes it useful as an informal hedge, a screen, a foundation shrub or a large 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 vigorous, bushy sasanqua camellia carrying glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long on slender reddish young stems. Large formal double flowers of bright pink open early in the season, giving colour through fall and into winter. 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. The dense growth makes it useful as an informal hedge, a screen, a foundation shrub or a large container specimen.
- Flowers
- Large formal double flowers of bright pink open early in the season.
- 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
