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This selection features large semi‑double flowers of dark blackish‑red with dark red stamens. Very glossy foliage, best in light shade. Quite lovely and uncommon in cultivation.

This selection features large semi‑double flowers of bright apricot‑pink highlighted by a central mass of golden stamens. The petals are “fashionably” curled and frilled and the spent flowers are quickly shed. Very glossy foliage, best in light shade. Quite lovely and uncommon in cultivation.

One of the most striking camellias in our collection. This selection features very large and very dark red flowers in mid‑ to late spring. Very glossy foliage, best in light shade. Quite lovely and uncommon in cultivation. One of the most commented upon plants in the garden (when in flower).

The Cinnamon Clethra is the southern Appalachian relative of the commonly cultivated Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia). This rarely grown deciduous shrub has similar panicles of fragrant white flowers in summer. Yellow fall foliage color. It also features glossy, smooth and peeling mahogany bark. Native to cliffs and mountainsides. Larger-growing than C. alnifolia. These are grown from seed collected wild in Kentucky.