Camellia rosaeflora 25/11 Restock The harvest window is short

The harvest window is short

Grow this one for the flowers

almost sculptural surface

with a few petals twisting as they age

a fact that either delights or mildly alarms a gardener

Camellia rosaeflora 25/11 Restock The harvest window is shortCamellia rosaeflora is a graceful species camellia from China, one of the lesser known kinds Woodlanders keeps in circulation for American gardeners. The habit is open and upright, the leaves small and fine for the genus, and in early spring the branches carry masses of small pink flowers, roughly an inch across and lightly double, in such profusion that the spent petals often fall to lay a soft pink carpet on the ground beneath. The effect is quiet