Camellia

The Camellia, Camellia sasanqua, is a landscape shrub, bush, or tree that can grow 20 feet tall. Very few perennial evergreen shrubs display the beautiful form in the landscape and the massing flowering habit of the Camellia. The Camellia has the flower colors of pink, red, white, purple, and peppermint. The Camellia can begin blooming as early as December and continues into March and April on some varieties, depending on weather warm-ups during the winter. Camellia shrubs and trees prefer light or heavy shade for growing, and pine trees or flowering magnolia trees are the perfect companion plants for the Camellia shrub. Full sun will burn the leaves of a Camellia shrub except for its interior leaves.