Tama Electra Camellia Japonica – 1 Gallon Pot

Flower Color:  Scarlet Red sometimes edged in White

Flower Size:  3″

From late winter through early spring the Tama Electra Camellia features showy single flowers with “electric” scarlet-red petals sometimes edged in white that surround a patch of red or yellow stamens. It has dark green evergreen foliage that is the perfect backdrop for the colorful flowers. To enjoy the flowers indoors, display several cuttings in a vase. Sure to be a conversation piece in the garden!

Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, the Tama Electra Camellia can be grown as a shrub or small tree. As a shrub it is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or as a hedge or background plant, in landscape borders and is especially nice as a corner plant or espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. As the plant grows, lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive and colorful weeping focal specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to red color theme gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens, Asian gardens and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that can be brought indoors during winter north of USDA Zone 7a, where this cultivar is not reliably winter hardy. Find Your Zone

Suggested Spacing:  5 or 6 feet apart for solid hedge; 14 feet or more apart for space between plants

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.

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