Camellia rosaeflora 25/11 Restock and the muscled bark carries

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

the Scottish plant hunter who worked the southern Appalachians in the footsteps of Bartram and Michaux

The species has been admired in Chinese gardens for centuries

Grow this one for the flowers

Camellia rosaeflora 25/11 Restock and the muscled bark carriesCamellia 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