Winter’s Star Camellia
Camellia hybrid ‘Winter’s Star’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6b-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub
Species: Camellia Hybrid
Height at Maturity: 5′
Width at Maturity: 6-7′
Spacing: 5′ for solid hedges; 9’+ for space between plants
Spacing: 5′ for solid hedges; 9’+ for space between plants
Flower Color: Soft-Pink to Fuschia-Pink, Bright Golden-Yellow stamens
Flower Size: 2.5-3″
Flowering Period: October and November
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Morning Sun with Afternoon Shade or Filtered Sun, All Day Filtered Sun
Water Needs: Average, Lower when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist
Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5 (Acid)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Resistances: Deer – more info, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity
Intolerances: Direct Afternoon Sun, Constantly Soggy Soil
Attracts: Visual Attention
Description
Cold hardy as far north as USDA Zone 6b, ‘Winter’s Star’ is a hybrid Camellia featuring large, single-petaled flowers with pinkish lavender petals surrounding a tuft of bright, golden yellow stamens at the center. The flowers appear in October and November providing winter color when there’s not much else blooming in the garden. The semi-glossy deep green foliage provides a perfect backdrop for the abundance of delightful flowers. The flowers and foliage are excellent for cutting and displaying in your favorite vase.
Landscape & Garden Uses
A lower growing Camellia with an mounded to slightly spreading habit of growth to about 5 feet tall and 6 to 7 feet wide, Winter’s Star is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or as a hedge or background plant in landscape borders and is especially nice as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. Great for cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that can be brought indoors during winters where not reliably hardy north of USDA Zone 6b. Find Your Zone
Spacing: 5 feet apart for solid hedge; 10 feet or more apart for space between plants
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Camellia variety is not reliably 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.
Growing Preferences
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.
Helpful Articles
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
*Espalier (pronounced: ih-spal-yay) …an ornamental shrub or tree that has been trained to grow flat against a wall, fence, or other vertical, flat surface.
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