High Fragrance Camellia TREE FORM - 3 Gallon Pot
$66.48
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$66.48
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High Fragrance Camellia TREE FORM - 3 Gallon Pot
$66.48
Sale price
$66.48
Regular price
$79.00
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Description
High Fragrance Camellia Tree
Camellia lutchuensis hybrid 'High Fragrance'
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 8a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub
Species: Japonica (Winter, Spring blooming)
Height at Maturity: 5-8' depending on pruning
Width at Maturity: 5-8' depending on pruning
Flower Color: Soft Pink
Flower Size: Large, 4"
Flowering Period: Late Fall through Early Spring
Flower Type: Semi-Double
Fragrant Flowers: Yes - they smell like a rose!
Foliage Color: Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Morning Sun with Afternoon Shade or Filtered Sun, All Day Filtered Sun
Water Needs: Average, Lower when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist
Soil pH: 5.0 - 6.5 (Acid)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity
Intolerances: Direct Afternoon Sun, Constantly Soggy Soil
Description
This is the tree form version of the High Fragrance Camellia. With your eyes closed you'd think you were smelling a rose. One of our favorite of all Camellia, High Fragrance is a hybrid that produces an abundance of beautiful, large and fully double peony form soft pink flowers with an alluring rose-like fragrance! An upright grower with an open habit. Be assured that every winter and spring this Camellia will delight the senses and become part of your gardening tradition.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 5 to 8 feet tall and 5 to 8 feet wide depending on pruning, the High Fragrance Camellia can be grown as a large shrub or small tree. This offering is the tree form that is ideal for as an attractive and colorful specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. Great for cottage gardens, cut flower gardens, to frame corners, as a single specimen shrub or tree, screen or windbreak plantings, home foundations, in woodland gardens, and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that can be brought indoors overwinter for those who live above USDA Zone 8a, where not winter hardy. Find Your Zone
Spacing: 4 feet apart for solid hedge; 10 feet or more apart for space between plants
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, where this Camellia variety is not reliably winter hardy, you'll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
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.
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Camellias.
Planting Camellias
Pruning Camellias
How To Fertilize & Water Camellias
How To Espalier Plants & Trees
*Espalier (pronounced: ih-spal-yay) ...an ornamental shrub or tree that has been trained to grow flat against a wall, fence, or other vertical, flat surface.
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