Description
Camellia japonica is a stunning specimen for milder gardens with glossy, dark-green, broadly elliptic, evergreen leaves accented with lovely, rose-like flowers in early spring. ‘Lady Vansittart’ is an intriguing heirloom cultivar from 1887 with flowers that can be all red or all white or any combination of those two colours including mixing them to form pink all on the same plant at the same time! Camellias appreciate rich, acidic, moist, well-draining soils. Use in the light shady garden as an accent or specimen plant, a hedge, or an espalier, or in containers and as cut flowers. Somewhat deer resistant. Plant in a protected location in zone 7. Photo: Wikipedia.
