Camellia Christmas Carol

Christmas comes early with this beauty.

What do you get when you cross Camellia japonica with Camellia sasanqua? You get the best of two worlds: The graceful, semi-weeping habit of Christmas Carol makes it useful for those who find japonicas too stiff and stodgy in the landscape.

Red, bell-shaped flowers with white, picotee borders begin in fall, with their grandest display during the Christmas season. Further into winter, scattered blooms persist with an even wider white margin, extending over 20% of the corolla. Fallen flowers create a beautiful effect, embellishing the ground in red and white like a holiday skirt. Delicate branching and lovely flowers with an extended bloom time…what more can we ask for?

Add Christmas Carol to your garden for its glossy, evergreen leaves and semi-double carmine red flowers with the most amazingly delicate white picotee edges. The flowers resemble the finest holiday ribbon.

This Camellia sasanqua hybrid flowers late fall and into winter, just when you think the garden is finished for the year, bringing life to an otherwise sleeping landscape.