April Tryst Camellia
Camellia japonica ‘April Tryst’ · a cold-hardy red spring-blooming camellia
One of Clifford Parks' April camellias, bred to bloom late, after the worst cold, so it can grow in sheltered Northeast gardens. Bright red anemone-form flowers open in early spring. Give it light shade out of winter sun and wind; open flowers brown in a frost, though tight buds come through.
- Mature size
- 7 × 5 ft
- 2.1 × 1.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6b–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
April Tryst Camellia at its mature size
A mature April Tryst Camellia grows 5 to 10 feet tall and 4 to 8 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Monrovia, phoenixperennials.com, homegarden.cahnr.uconn.edu.
Through the year
What April Tryst Camellia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · May–Feb
Glossy dark green leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Mar–Apr
Bright red anemone-form flowers among glossy leaves.
Growing April Tryst Camellia
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, shade garden, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China, Japan, and Korea
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For April Tryst Camellia, that’s about 5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See April Tryst Camellia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other camellias
October Magic Snow CamelliaApril Tryst Camellia
October Magic Rose Camellia
Kramer's Supreme CamelliaAll drawn to the same scale.