October Magic Carpet Camellia
Camellia sasanqua ‘Green 01-006’ · a spreading pink fall-blooming sasanqua camellia
A low, dense, wide-spreading sasanqua bred as a tall ground cover, carpeted for weeks in fall with ruffled, bright pink semi-double flowers. Mass it along a bed's front edge or down a gentle bank. Give it acid, well-drained soil and shelter from harsh afternoon sun.
- Mature size
- 3.5 × 6 ft
- 1.1 × 1.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7b–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Oct–Dec
October Magic Carpet Camellia at its mature size
A mature October Magic Carpet Camellia grows 2 to 4 feet tall and 3 to 7 feet wide.
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: patents.google.com, plantaddicts.com, taylorsnursery.com.
Through the year
What October Magic Carpet Camellia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Jan–Sep
Glossy dark green leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Oct–Dec
A low mat covered in ruffled bright pink-purple semi-double flowers with yellow centres.
Growing October Magic Carpet Camellia
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Hedge, foundation planting, and winter interest
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For October Magic Carpet Camellia, that’s about 6 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 October Magic Carpet Camellia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other camellias
Winter's Rose CamelliaOctober Magic Carpet Camellia
October Magic Orchid Camellia
Shishi Gashira CamelliaAll drawn to the same scale.