This one's been kicking around since I was but a boy in 1894. Strangely I don't have one in my garden but at this time of year, before the Camellia japonicas start their blooming that slides winter into spring, the Camellia sasanquas reign. Single red C.j. 'Yuletide' with it's boss of yellow stamens is a winner especially since it often blooms around Christmas. Recently, at a local nursery, 'Shishi Gashira' once again caught my eye.
What's not to love? Lovely evergreen foliage, intense, some might say garish, color, delightful fragrance and blooming in December. Perhaps I'll go back and get one. True confession time: Camellia japonicas grow all over my garden with nary a problem but I've killed a couple C. sasanquas. They do very well for me in pots though so maybe that's the answer for me and these lovelies.
For more information about this easy to grow beauty, look here. Happy first weekend of 2015! I hope you head out to a nursery to do some plant shopping!
What's not to love? Lovely evergreen foliage, intense, some might say garish, color, delightful fragrance and blooming in December. Perhaps I'll go back and get one. True confession time: Camellia japonicas grow all over my garden with nary a problem but I've killed a couple C. sasanquas. They do very well for me in pots though so maybe that's the answer for me and these lovelies.
And here we have a bloom fully open and exposing her reproductive organs. Hardy in zones 7 -9 and liking more sun than C.japonicas. That means that here in the soggy pacific northwest, we can grow it in full sun.
