Camellia japonica Large Shrubs Cut back in late winter

Cut back in late winter to keep the shrub bushy

a quiet contrast that the bees find quickly

so even between bloom and a fragrance you can rely on

The hard wood that earned the ironwood name once went into tool handles

Alabama area

Camellia japonica Large Shrubs Cut back in late winterAn honest admission to start: we do not know her name. Camellia japonica has been bred and named for the better part of three centuries, the roll of registered cultivars runs well into the thousands, and behind those stand thousands more good selections that were grown, loved, handed over a fence, and quietly parted from their labels along the way. This is one of the latter, a pale pink japonica of real quality and no surviving paperwork, the kind of