Plant: Winter's Charm - Camellia hyb.
Camellia hyb. · Camellia × 'Winter's Charm'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A cold hardy camellia hybrid bred by William Ackerman from a Sasanqua crossed with Camellia oleifera and registered in 1987. It is an upright, compact grower of medium rate reaching about 4 to 7 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, with dark green glossy evergreen leaves that hold their colour through winter. Medium sized lavender pink flowers of full peony form with yellow anthers open early in the season, through winter into early spring, and the plant has been recorded tolerating temperatures down to minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit. It prefers morning sun only, adapts to most soil types provided they are acid and well drained, and works as an accent, a specimen, a mass planting, a hedge or an understory shrub.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 7 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in winter, spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-10
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A cold hardy camellia hybrid bred by William Ackerman from a Sasanqua crossed with Camellia oleifera and registered in 1987. It is an upright, compact grower of medium rate reaching about 4 to 7 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, with dark green glossy evergreen leaves that hold their colour through winter. Medium sized lavender pink flowers of full peony form with yellow anthers open early in the season, through winter into early spring, and the plant has been recorded tolerating temperatures down to minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit. It prefers morning sun only, adapts to most soil types provided they are acid and well drained, and works as an accent, a specimen, a mass planting, a hedge or an understory shrub.
- Flowers
- Medium sized lavender pink flowers of full peony form with yellow anthers, opening early in the camellia season.
- Light
- Morning Sun
