Trish: Thanks so much for this great review and photo's! Those plants sure were packed amazingly well and look very healthy ... Kudo's to Camellia Forest Nursery for selling healthy plants and packing them so well for shipment! I'm going to check out their website to see if they offer any Camellia's that might grow in my zone! I love green tea but I don't think I'd have the patience to make my own ... getting lazier with each birthday.
I had a pretty Camellia sasanqua 'Northern Lights' a few years ago. It did very well in shade but when we had two consecutive harsh winters it killed the Schefflera trees that were shading it and the Camellia ended up getting fried by the intense Florida sun. Since moving into my new house I found a small Camellia planted in the yard but it's kind of sickly looking and it's being taken over by Boxwood hedges. I need to try to figure out what it's issues are and transplant it to a different area. I saw photo's on line of two sasanqua's that I'd love to find, one called 'Little Pearl' and another called 'Paradise Blush' that were really beautiful ... and a red one that I think was called 'Yuletide'. My sister in North Georgia used to have some really large, really beautiful Camellias in her yard.
Camellia sasanqua 'Northern Lights': ..... And the unknown Camellia currently growing in my yard:
