A Camellia japonica that blooms in fall instead of late winter to early spring? Yep...meet Early Wonder, a true beauty with buds that start opening in September and continue all the way to February. Very similar to the Early Autumn Camellia (we can't tell much of a difference), Early Wonder features abundant, large, lavender-rose formal-double flowers that are truly gorgeous. For those who love bold and beautiful lavender-ish flowers, Early Wonder is a must have for the garden. The flowers are perfect for cutting. To enjoy them indoors, display several in a vase or float just one in a bowl of water.

A moderate to tall growing Camellia with an upright habit of growth up to 10 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, Early Wonder Camellia can be grown as a shrub or small tree. As a shrub, it is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or as a hedge or background plant. It is especially nice as a corner plant or espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. As it grows, lower branches can be removed to form a small tree that serves well as an attractive and colorful specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to lavender, pink or purple theme gardens, camellia gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that can be brought indoors during winter by those who live and garden above USDA Zone 7a, where this camellia variety is not reliably winter hardy. Find Your Zone

Suggested Spacing:  6 feet apart for solid hedge; 12 feet apart for space between plants

Camellia adapt well to various soil types however prefer a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is rich in organic matter. Constantly soggy soil is a slow killer. In general, Camellia grows and blooms better in partial shade with some shelter from the hot afternoon sun. Morning sun with afternoon shade or filtered sunlight is perfect. All-day filtered sun is fine.

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