Sarrel Camellia

Camellia sasanqua ‘Sarrel’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-9b (10?) Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub

Species: Sasanqua (Fall Blooming)

Height: 2-3′

Width at Maturity: 5-6′

Spacing: 4′ for solid hedges or mass plantings; 8’+ for space between plants

Flower Color: Soft Pink to Bright Pink

Flower Size: 3″

Flowering Period: Fall into Winter

Flower Type: Anemone to Formal Double

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Morning Sun with Afternoon Shade or Filtered Sun, All Day Filtered Sun

Water Needs: Average, Lower when established

Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist

Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5 (Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity

Intolerances: Direct Afternoon Sun, Constantly Soggy Soil

Description

This might just be the lowest growing Camellia we’ve ever grown in our gardens. With just a little pruning, Sarrel can be kept to under 2 feet in height with branches that spread across the ground more like a groundcover plant than a shrub. In fall, she produces a profusion of beautiful anemone to formal double flowers with soft pink to bright pink petals with darker highlights. Shiny evergreen leaves are dark green throughout the year and provide a wonderful backdrop for the flowers. A truly spectacular selection for gardeners looking for a lower growing Camellia to use as a groundcover or border border in partially shaded landscape beds or in home foundation plantings where a lower growing plant is needed.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide (depending on pruning), the Jean May is low-growing almost trailing Camellia ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, as a groundcover in landscape borders or on embankments, as a border along paths and walkways, and is especially nice under low windows in home foundation plantings. A fine addition to Camellia gardens, pink theme gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that can be brought indoors during winter by those who live above USDA Zone 7a, where this Camellia variety is not reliably winter hardy. Find Your Zone

Suggested Spacing: 4 to 5 feet apart for solid hedge; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Camellia variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Camellia adapt well to various soil types however prefer a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is rich in organic matter. Constantly soggy soil is a slow killer. In general, Camellia grows and blooms better in partial shade with some shelter from the hot afternoon sun. Morning sun with afternoon shade or filtered sunlight is perfect. All-day filtered sun is fine.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to get helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Camellias.

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How To Fertilize & Water Camellias
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*Espalier (pronounced: ih-spal-yay) …an ornamental shrub or tree that has been trained to grow flat against a wall, fence, or other vertical, flat surface.

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