Kramer's Supreme Camellia
Camellia japonica ‘Kramer's Supreme’ · a red peony-form Japanese camellia
An award-winning Japanese camellia with very large, ruffled, turkey-red peony flowers in winter, and unusually for a red camellia, they're fragrant. A compact, upright shrub for part shade; give it acid soil that drains well, since wet soil brings root rot.
- Mature size
- 9 × 7 ft
- 2.7 × 2.1 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Jan–Mar
Kramer's Supreme Camellia at its mature size
A mature Kramer's Supreme Camellia grows 6 to 10 feet tall and just as 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: NC State Extension, Monrovia, Clemson Extension.
Through the year
What Kramer's Supreme Camellia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In flower · Jan–Mar
Very large, full peony-form turkey-red flowers among glossy leaves.
In leaf · Apr–Dec
Glossy dark green leaves, no flowers.
Growing Kramer's Supreme Camellia
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, shade garden, winter interest, and fragrant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China, Japan, and Korea
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Kramer's Supreme Camellia, that’s about 7 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 Kramer's Supreme Camellia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other camellias
Kramer's Supreme Camellia
Pink Perfection Camellia
White by the Gate Camellia
Winter's Snowman CamelliaAll drawn to the same scale.