Winter's Rose Camellia
Camellia ‘Winter's Rose’ · a cold-hardy pale pink fall-blooming camellia
A dwarf, cold-hardy camellia from the US National Arboretum, small enough for a pot or a narrow bed, with pale shell-pink, rose-form double flowers for weeks in mid-fall. Give it a sheltered, lightly shaded spot out of winter wind, in moist, acid soil.
- Mature size
- 2.5 × 2.5 ft
- 0.8 × 0.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6b–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Oct–Nov
Winter's Rose Camellia at its mature size
A mature Winter's Rose Camellia grows 2 to 3 feet tall and just as 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: NC State Extension, homegarden.cahnr.uconn.edu.
Through the year
What Winter's Rose Camellia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Dec–Sep
Glossy dark green leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Oct–Nov
Small pale shell-pink rose-form double flowers.
Growing Winter's Rose Camellia
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Small space, foundation planting, and shade garden
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Garden hybrid
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Winter's Rose Camellia, that’s about 2.5 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 Winter's Rose Camellia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other camellias
Winter's Rose Camellia
October Magic Carpet Camellia
October Magic Orchid Camellia
Shishi Gashira CamelliaAll drawn to the same scale.