Camellia japonica (single red) 25/6 Restock and asks little beyond sun

and asks little beyond sun or light shade and a moist

easy to miss from a distance

this is one of the few asters that is genuinely here

and then dies

densely leafy evergreen carries small

Camellia japonica (single red) 25/6 Restock and asks little beyond sunA 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