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• ‘Winter Interlude’ has 1.5 inch semi
double pink petals surrounding a
mix of pink and cream petaloids or
tiny petals.

• ‘Winter’s Rose’ has 2 inch wide pink
flowers with notched overlapping
petals that can last on the plants
for 4-6 weeks. It is a miniature plant
that grows only 2-3 feet tall and
wide, perfect for small spaces.

• ‘Winter’s Snowman’ has snow white
ruffled semi double to anemone
flowers with a tuft of mini petals
and bright yellow stamens in the
center boss. The plants can grow
10-12 feet tall and 5-7 feet wide.

• ‘Winter’s Charm’ has lovely ruffled
semi double peony form flowers
that are pink with a flush of
lavender surrounding a boss of
bright yellow stamens in mid-to-late
autumn on plants that grow 5-7
feet tall and 4-6 feet wide.
• ‘Winter’s Fancy’ has 3-4 inch semi
double flowers that bloom pinkish
purple with the plants and grows
6-8 feet tall and 5-7 feet wide. Camellia sasaqua. bonaza

• ‘Polar Ice’ with 3- 3.5 inch icy white 1.5 to 3 inches long, are oval, and a sign of chlorosis caused by alkaline
petals resembling peonies and at attached to the stems in an alternate soils. Lowering the soil pH with sulfur
least 12 petals that surround tiny fashion. There are a number of insects and adding iron chelates will help the
petals and golden stamens. that can be pests including aphids, health of the plants. A

• ‘Snow Flurry’ has white 3–4 inch plant hoppers, scale and spider mites. Photo credit: Ginny Rozenkranz
flowers in an anemone form, with Diseases can include anthracnose,
12 snow white petals that surround black mold (if scale are attacking
tiny petals and golden stamens. the foliage), canker, fungal diseases,
leaf spots, root rot and viruses.
Not only do the flowers enhance
Petal blight might be a problem
every landscape, they also provide
but with the cooler temperatures
nectar to many autumn pollinators
in the autumn, the fall blooming
and the plants provide both shelter
camellias don’t usually have petal
and food for songbirds and small Ginny Rosenkranz
blight. The fall blooming camellia is
mammals. Fall blooming camellias Extension Educator, Commercial
also resistant to Phytophthora root Horticulture, University of Maryland
also have beautiful, year-round,
rot, and are tolerant to drought, salt Extension, Dorchester, Somerset,
glossy dark green leaves that are
and moderate deer browsing. If the Wicomico and Worchester County
smaller and more delicate than their
fall blooming camellias have yellow 410 749-6141 x106
spring blooming cousins. They grow rosnkrnz@umd.edu
leaves with green veins, that is usually
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