Camellia rosaeflora 25/11 Restock Flowering comes in early summer

Flowering comes in early summer

A shagbark begins bearing slowly

a fact that either delights or mildly alarms a gardener

The species has been admired in Chinese gardens for centuries

and the muscled bark carries the winter scene once the leaves have fallen

Camellia rosaeflora 25/11 Restock Flowering comes in early summerCamellia 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