(Barbara Colbert Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camillia)

The large, early to midseason, semi-double blooms of 'Barbara Colbert' have rose-pink petals and yellow anthers. Originating from a cross between 'Jessie Katz' and 'Wildwood', it was raised and selected by Ralph E. May of Fernandina, Florida. This cultivar is one of thousands of named selections and hybrids of Camellia japonica, a broadleaf evergreen shrub that has long been grown and treasured in its native East Asia.

This vigorous, upright, medium to large shrub has ascending, gray-barked...

(Berenice Beauty Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camillia)

Resembling miniature peony blossoms, the medium-large, semi-double blooms of 'Berenice Beauty' are delicate pale pink with deeper pink edges. Fully open flowers show a core of golden stamens. This broadleaf evergreen shrub grows more vigorously than other selections and develops an upright habit when mature.

Treasured in eastern Asia for centuries, camellias were brought to the western world by Jesuit missionary and botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, for whom they are named. Their attractive smooth...

(Berenice Boddy Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camillia)

The semi-double, midseason blooms of 'Berenice Boddy' have pale pink petals with deeper pink undersides. This cultivar originated at Rancho del Descanso in LaCanada Flintridge, California. It is one of thousands of named selections and hybrids of Camellia japonica, a broadleaf evergreen shrub that has long been grown and treasured in its native East Asia.

This vigorous, upright, large shrub has ascending, gray-barked branches and oval, glossy, dark-green leaves with serrated edges....

(Bernadette Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camellia)

Rich coral-pink, peony-like flowers don 'Bernadette' in late winter. This cultivar was selected as a chance seedling growing in the garden of Albert Ewan in Charleston, South Carolina in the latter half of the 20th century. Its cheerful blooms are medium to large and semi-double with a core of yellow stamens. This broadleaf evergreen shrub develops an upright, open habit when mature.

Treasured in eastern Asia for centuries, camellias were brought to the western world by Jesuit missionary...

(Betty Foy Sanders Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camellia)

The semi-double, white flowers of the 'Betty Foy Sanders' have fine splatters of coral-red across their petals and centers with ornate ivory and gold stamens. This broadleaf evergreen shrub develops slowly, adopting a rounded, upright habit when mature. Unlike the plain medium to dark green leaves of other Japanese camellias, its are light green, wavy and twisted. Fred H. Smith selected this chance seedling in the mid-20th century and named it for the wife of the Georgia Governor, Carl Sanders.

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(Betty Sheffield Blush Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camellia)

The camellia ‘Betty Sheffield Blush’ bears large, pale-pink blooms with deep pink veining and golden stamens. Each flower has numerous ruffled petals arrayed in "loose peony" form. Flowering occurs mid- to late-season (late winter to spring). This sport of 'Betty Sheffield' originated about 1950 at Thomasville Nurseries, Thomasville, Georgia. It develops slowly into a dense, upright, medium-sized shrub with oval, glossy, dark green leaves and attractive gray-barked branches. It is one of thousands...

(Betty Sheffield Supreme Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camellia)

The large, peony-form blooms of ‘Betty Sheffield Supreme’ are rosy pink edged in white and bloom in the middle-of-the-winter to early-spring flowering season. The large shrub has an upright, dense habit and matures to a medium size. Mrs Green Alday of Georgia selected this sport mutation off of 'Betty Sheffield' in the mid-20th century.

Japanese camellia is a large, broadleaf evergreen shrub to small tree that originates from eastern Asia. It has attractive smooth gray branches that are furnished...

(Betty Sheffield Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camellia)

The cultivar ‘Betty Sheffield’ is a dense plant with an upright habit. Large, double, loose peony-form blooms (a puffy mass of multiple irregular petals) are white, striped and blotched with pink and red. Widely opened flowers reveal the golden center of stamens. Flowering occurs mid-season: late winter to very early spring. In the 1940s, a random camellia seedling of Mrs. F.L. Gibson was transplanted and grown by Mrs. A.B. Sheffield in Thomasville, Georgia. This camellia proved highly ornamental,...

(Betty's Beauty Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camillia)

The medium to large, semi-double, midseason blooms of 'Betty's Beauty' have white petals with orchid-pink edges. Originating about 1975, this sport of 'Betty Sheffield Supreme' was selected by F. Moore of West Covina, California. It is one of thousands of named selections and hybrids of Camellia japonica, a broadleaf evergreen shrub that has long been grown and treasured in its native East Asia.

This slow-growing, dense, medium to large shrub has ascending, gray-barked branches and...

(Big Beauty Camellia, Camellia, Japanese Camellia)

The camellia ‘Big Beauty’ bears enormous, semi-double to double, dull-white flowers with rose-red streaks and blotches. Bloom is from midwinter to early spring, midway in the Camellia japonica season. Each blossom has numerous petals arrayed in "loose peony" form, with the inner petals forming a central "rosebud." This cultivar originated before 1940 on Avery Island, Louisiana, in the gardens of Tabasco heir Edward Avery McIlhenny. It rapidly forms a dense, upright, medium to large shrub...