April Blush Cold Hardy Pink Camellia – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6b-9b Find Your Zone

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6b, where this Camellia variety is not 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.

A moderate growing Camellia with an upright habit of growth to about 8-10 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide, April Blush can be grown as a shrub or small tree. As a shrub, it is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, as hedge or background plant and is especially nice as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall). Lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive small tree that serves well as a focal point specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to Camellia gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that in cooler climates north of USDA Zone 6b can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.. Find Your Zone

Spacing:  5 to 6 feet apart for solid hedge; 12 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.

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Camellias…

• Planting Camellias
• Pruning Camellias
• How To Fertilize & Water Camellias
• How To Espalier Plants & Trees