Camellia japonica (single red) 25/6 Restock and highly prized

and highly prized

Deep orange

and drawing butterflies and hummingbirds all season

borne in such profusion that the bush seems to foam white

this is one of the few asters that is genuinely here

Camellia japonica (single red) 25/6 Restock and highly prizedA camellia with a story we can only half tell. Years ago a plant was dropped at the nursery in Aiken, left for a friend to carry home to Korea. The pickup never came, and the plant stayed; the label, somewhere in the years that followed, was lost. We propagated her anyway, because she was too good to let slip, and because she has the particular bone structure of a real cultivar. Someone, somewhere, named her. What she is, plainly: a single form