{"id":7056,"date":"2014-11-29T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2014-11-26T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:54:18","slug":"list-of-zone-6-hardy-camellias-grows-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/11\/29\/list-of-zone-6-hardy-camellias-grows-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Zone 6 Hardy Camellias Grows Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘April Tryst’ Camellia<\/p><\/div>\n

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‘April Remembered’ Camellia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you live and garden in USDA hardiness zone 6, several camellia cultivars are winter hardy. The past decade has seen an increase in the list of hardy cultivars. These same cultivars are also reliable planted in zone 7. Here is a sampling of the best Zone 6 Hardy Camellias:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fall Bloomers:<\/b><\/p>\n

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Londontowne Blush<\/p>\n

Long Island Pink<\/p>\n

Snow Flurry<\/p>\n

Sweet October<\/p>\n

Winter\u2019s Interlude<\/p>\n

Winter\u2019s Joy<\/p>\n

Winter’s Star<\/p>\n

Spring Bloomers:<\/b><\/p>\n

April Dawn<\/p>\n

April Remembered<\/p>\n

April Snow<\/p>\n

April Tryst<\/p>\n

Korean Fire<\/p>\n

Pink Icicle<\/p>\n

Spring\u2019s Promise<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Winter of 2013-14 was the roughest in my 9 years of growing camellias in northeast Tennessee (zone 6).\u00a0All March-April bloomers\u00a0lost\u00a0their flower buds. All\u00a0camellias in my garden survived the cold and\u00a0looked\u00a0great by summer.<\/p>\n

Subjecting\u00a0camellias to direct winter winds\u00a0and planting them late in the year are two big mistakes. Don’t plantafter October 1st; spread 2-3 inches of an organic mulch around newly\u00a0planted camellias as a soil heat blanket.\u00a0October tends to be a dry month in the mid-South region; irrigate\u00a0\u00a0new camellias during rainfall deficit.\u00a0Caveat<\/span>: do not overwater camellias; November-December rainfall is usually plentiful. One-year old planted camellias\u00a0acquire\u00a0good drought tolerance.\u00a0Irrigate only when\u00a0summer months are exceptionally dry.<\/p>\n

As a holiday promotion local big box stores may sell the camellia cultivar \u2018Yuletide\u2019 with bright red blooms and dark green leaves\u00a0which open\u00a0around late October. Most flowers will not open\u00a0as frigid temperatures will arrive shortly. Open flowers are immediately injured and temperatures below 15\u00ba F will kill\u00a0(blast)\u00a0unopened floral buds. Yuletide may be zone 7b hardy.<\/p>\n

Lastly, some zone 7 rated cultivars demonstrates exceptional plant cold hardiness. Their flowers (Sasanqua<\/em> types)\u00a0open in early autumn. Their winter foliage bronzes slightly, but shrubs rarely lose a leaf. More about these cultivars at a future blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                If you live and garden in USDA hardiness zone 6, several camellia cultivars are winter hardy. The past decade has seen an increase in the list of hardy cultivars. These same cultivars are also reliable planted in zone 7. Here is a sampling of the best Zone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,707,747,11,299,605,144,674,645,800,843,1060,729,630,705,646,7,708,455,642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11377,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}