When Paul Mezo sees a Camellia sasanqua in bloom, it tells him one thing. “It’s how you know it’s fall,” said Mezo, a horticulturist at Banting’s Nursery on River Road in Bridge City. “It’s the one ...

Plant Camellia sasanqua for more reasons than aesthetics. In the past I grew Camellia sasanqua for the attractive winter flowers that contrast so beautifully with the dark-green evergreen foliage.

Not famous for their fragrance or because they make the perfect cut flower, nonetheless, camellias are among some of the most beloved garden shrubs. Most people recognize the large, open blossoms of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo provided by Planting Fields Archives shows Camellia sasanqua x 'Long Island Pink' flowers in bloom at Planting ...

Winter is on its way, but for the Camellia sasanqua, spring has arrived and it is time to bud and bloom. At Humboldt Botanical Garden you can see them blooming now in the Moss Family Temperate ...

HAMMOND – The sasanqua species of camellia is one of our most popular flowering shrubs for late fall through early spring. These go by the scientific names of Camellia sasanqua. Sasanquas are ...

When I first moved from Dallas to Tyler one of the fi rst gardening people I met said to me, “I only grow the normal things – like camellias.” I was in awe because when I lived up North, camellias ...

The camellia plant is one of our favorite evergreen flowering shrubs. These plants provide some of the first signs of the season when they burst out in big, colorful blooms come winter and spring.

One of my neighbors asked me what type of crepe myrtle was blooming at this time of year in my yard? It’s loaded with small, pink blooms. Ironically, the small tree isn’t a crape myrtle at all but a ...