Pink Perfection Camellia
Camellia japonica ‘Pink Perfection’ · a pink formal-double Japanese camellia
An heirloom Japanese camellia, grown since the eighteen-seventies for its small, perfectly formal shell-pink double flowers over a long winter-to-spring season. It's slow to settle in; give it part shade and acid, well-drained soil, since soggy 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
- Dec–Mar
Pink Perfection Camellia at its mature size
A mature Pink Perfection Camellia grows 6 to 13 feet tall and 5 to 13 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: rhs.org.uk, everde.com, phoenixperennials.com, Clemson Extension.
Through the year
What Pink Perfection Camellia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In flower · Dec–Mar
Many small, formal double shell-pink flowers among glossy leaves.
In leaf · Apr–Nov
Glossy dark green leaves, no flowers.
Growing Pink Perfection Camellia
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, shade garden, deer resistant, and winter interest
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China, Japan, and Korea
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Pink Perfection 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 Pink Perfection Camellia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other camellias
Pink Perfection Camellia
Kramer's Supreme Camellia
White by the Gate Camellia
Winter's Snowman CamelliaAll drawn to the same scale.