Winter’s Snowman Camellia Hybrid – 7 Gallon Pot (2-3′)

Flower Color:  White with Bright Yellow stamens

Flower Size:  2.5-3″

Winter’s Snowman is recognized as one of the most cold hardy and heat tolerant of all Camellia surviving winters as far north as USDA Hardiness Zone 6a! Winter’s Snowman produces gorgeous, ruffled, semi-double to anemone-form white flowers with a tuft of bright yellow stamens or creamy mini-petals at the center. The flowers are produced in fall. Anemone-form and semi-double flowers may appear on the same plant at the same time. Its lustrous dark green foliage provides the perfect backdrop and contrast of color for the flowers. The truly stunning flowers and beautiful dark green foliage are excellent for cutting and displaying in your favorite vase or float just one flower in a bowl of water.

A taller growing Camellia with an upright, semi-columnar habit of growth to about 10 to 12 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide, Winter’s Snowman can be grown as a shrub or small tree. As a shrub it is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or hedge or background plant in landscape borders and is especially nice as a corner plant or espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. As this camellia grows taller lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive small evergreen tree that serves well as a colorful specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to camellia gardens, white theme gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that can be brought indoors during winter where this variety in not reliably winter hardy north of USDA Zone 6a. Find Your Zone

Spacing:  4 to 5 feet apart for solid hedge; 10 feet or more 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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