April Kiss Camellia. By april this plant is covered in rose pink blooms. Camellia japonica april kiss produces abundant fully double salmon pink flowers from april to june.
As the open flowers can be damaged by early sun on frost it is best to plant in a location sheltered from one or both. Camellia japonica and most of its cultivars are considered to be winter hardy to usda zones 6 9. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Color can vary from a mid pink to rose to red.
A small formal flower on a compact slow growing plant. This shrub is cold hardy and prefers average soil and part sun. It makes a very heavy bud set and blooms at the beginning of the spring season. April kiss camellia produces an abundance of absolutely gorgeous 3 4 inch formal double flowers graced with shades of soft pink pink or almost red presenting a hypnotizing show of color in late winter through early to mid spring.