Camellia varieties in my zone 7b garden

There are so many camellias your yard is likle to start feeling too small once you start researching which varieties and types you want to plant.

Additionally all camellias can be used for tea by picking young leaf shoots and treating them various ways! I love a multi-use plant! Camellia sinensis is the tea camellia and will have more caffeine and tea flavor.

Camellia List

1. Camellia japonica ‘Kifukurin Benikarako’ – my favorite camellia so far! Subtle but noticeable leaf variegation and smaller red flowers with a petaloid peony-like center puff
2. Camellia sasanqua “Shishigashira” (5) – shorter shrubby dark pink almost ruffled flowers
3. Camellia japonica ‘Professor Sargent’ – deep red with petaloid puff center
4. Camellia sasanqua “October Magic Ruby” (2 came in 1 pot) – lighter leaves, very dark pink flowers, some sun tolerance
5. Camellia sasanqua “Kanjiro” – this is the first camellia i planted! Dark pink flowers on bushy vigorous plant
6. Camellia japonica ‘White by the Gate’ – white formal, blooms through middle of winter but lots of brown flower damage due to cold
7. Camellia sasanqua “Setsugekka” – white with pink edging, tall and willowy bushy growth
8. Camellia sasanqua “Pink Snow” – pale pink with dropping petals that give the impression of pink snow on the ground
9. “Ella Ward Parsons” Camellia Japonica – formal pink and white
10. Camellia Japonica ‘Nuccio’s Pearl’ – formal pink and white
11. Camellia x “Robiraki” aka “Summer Beauty” – historic first known hybrid of C. japonica and C. sinensis
12. Camellia japonica “Tama Nouveau” – white edged red flower like many offspring of ‘tama no ura’
13. Camellia japonica ‘Fukurin-ikkyu’ – heavily variegated leaf, pink variegated flower
14. Camellia x ‘Winter’s Sunset’ – variegated leaf, fragrant, higo-like disc shaped single blooms with crepey petals that almost appear translucent, early blooming, heavy bud set
15. Camellia japonica ‘Kumagai’ – large red higo type with some white petaloids
16. Camellia sasanqua ‘Autumn Sunrise’ – early blooming, heavy bud set, bushy willowy plant, white/pink with thick dark rose edges to petals and yellow stamens, higo-like
17. Camellia japonica ‘Roma Risorta’ – striped heavily rose and light pink, formal
18. Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’ (2) – single red higo-like, blooms start around Thanksgiving
19. Camellia x ‘Autumn Carnival’ – early blooming striped opens dark pink fades to light, Chance seedling of Camellia x ‘Twilight Glow’
20. Camellia japonica ‘Lady Laura’ – huge red blooms, mine has no variegation and is the “red” cultivar reversion, huge blooms
21. Camellia japonica ‘Kumasaka’ large double rose pink 1695 antique camellia, very late blooms

Camellia Wish List

Obviously my excitement for camellias exceeds the space of my yard, but there are a number of gorgeous varieties I love to look at and wish for. Below are some of the fore-runners that may appear if I find more space!

• Camellia sinensis ‘Silver Dust’
• Camellia sinensis ‘Rosea’
• Camellia sinensis ‘Fiuri’
• Camellia sasanqua ‘Leslie Ann’ double cupped white with pink edge, ruflled and rose like
• Camellia sasanqua ‘Yoimachi’ very early blooming white with pink edge
• Camellia x ‘Yume’ longest blooming camellia, great potential for hybridization
• Camellia japonica ‘Adeline Patti’ pink flower with delicate pink veining, white picotee egde, higo-like splayed prominent stamens
• Camellia japonica ‘Fircone Variegated’ double small red and white with petals stacked like a fir cone
• Camellia japonica ‘Lois Coker’ white with yellow blush, formal full, pinched pointed petals
• Camellia japonica ‘Francis Eugene Phillips’ spikey holly edged leaves, ruffly pink and white flowers
• Camellia japonica ‘Happy Higo’ very large red single higo flowers with many splayed stamens
• Camellia japonica ‘Ko-raku’ red and white striped higo form
• Camellia japonica ‘Yamato Nishiki’ large red and white variegated higo form
• Camellia japonica ‘Gloire de Nantes’ red and white variegated higo form
• Camellia japonica ‘Goggy’ pink and white formal (may be too similar to nuccios pearl and ella ward parsons camellias)
• Camellia japonica ‘Chris Bergamini’ small red and white striped variegated flower with peony center
• Camellia japonica ‘Tom Thumb’ small variegated pink and white with picotee edge, formal double
• Camellia japonica ‘Tinsie’ white petaloid center puff
• Camellia japonica ‘Bokuhan’ white petaloid center puff
• Camellia japonica ‘Margaret Davis’ variegated, more stable than other variegated types
• Camellia japonica ‘Ville de Nantes’ blotched almost moire blooms
• Camellia japonica ‘April dawn blush’ stacked formal
• Camellia japonica ‘Koshi no fubuki’ highly variegated green/white leaves, single red flower
• Camellia japonica ‘Elegans Splendour’ pink with peony center, slight varigation, sports and reversion common
• Camellia japonica ‘Herme’ aka ‘Jordan’s pride’ aka ‘Hikarugenji’ variegated but unstable, buy in bloom and cut out reversion branches or root cuttings if good
• Camellia japonica ‘Betty Scheffield Supreme’ variegated, prone to reversions, buy in bloom
• Camellia japonica ‘Carters sunburst special’ variegated, prone to reversions, buy in bloom
• Camellia japonica ‘Finlandia’ red and white stripe,
• Camellia japonica ‘princess masako’ red and white stripe with picotee pink edge, double
• Camellia japonica ‘Lavinia Maggie’
• Camellia japonica ‘Daikagura’
• Camellia japonica ‘R. L. Wheeler’
• Camellia japonica ‘Ohkan’ higo white with pink edge
• Camellia japonica ‘Tama Peacock’
• Camellia Japonica ‘Nuccio’s Bella Rossa’ formal vey dark pink/red
• Camellia x williamsii ‘waterlily’ rhs winner, long bloom time
• Camellia x williamsii ‘cupcake’ pink withd erect stamens
• Camellia x ‘Spring Mist’ pale pink long bloom