Sasanqua Camellias

With flowers from late summer to winter, sasanqua camellias make a long impact on the garden and are a real customer favourite here at Kallista Flora Wholesale Nursery.

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Sasanquas have very dark, almost black-green, shining foliage and are a fitting background to the soft pink, white or red flowers with their centres of gold-tipped stamens.  One or two rows of petals, rarely more, constitute the flower.  The overall effect of flower and bush is delicate and flowering yet Sasanquas belie their looks. 

They are among the toughest of garden shrubs and are long-lived and easy to grow; though slowly initially, they grow more quickly than Camellia Japonica. 

Japonica Camellias

To many people, Japonicas are the most recognisable Camellia. With a strong growth habit and large glossy dark green leaves, they flower from late autumn, right through to spring.

Easily grown, they come in a variety of colours and forms.  A long-lived evergreen shrubs, 2-5 m (according to age and variety), with toothed, leathery, glossy dark green leaves and abundant winter flowers of pink, red, white and their variants.  

Flowers will last well indoors and are of several forms including semi-doubles with a central mass of stamens and doubles.  Many mutate (sport) readily, producing blooms of another colour on the same bush.