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Camellia 'Ruby Wedding'

Camellia 'Ruby Wedding'

Camellia

Height
3m
Width
2m
Tree shape

Estimated size at 10 years

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Stock Info

Standard height
The height of the clear trunk before the graft and branching begins.
Low worked (LW)
Grafted, or allowed to branch, much lower on the trunk.
Clear trunk (CT) vs Bushy
Clear trunk has its branches trimmed up. Bushy is allowed to grow out from lower down.
Cloud pruned
Foliage shaped into distinct, rounded “clouds” on carefully spaced branches.

Camellia 'Ruby Wedding' produces large, bright-red flowers with frilly petals in anemone to peony form. The blooms are typically 8cm wide by 5cm deep and consist of 16 petals, about 137 petaloids, and gold stamens. They are very showy and contrast beautifully against the large, glossy, deep-green leaves, which are usually 9cm long by 5cm wide. Camellia 'Ruby Wedding' flowers from late winter to late spring and has a dense, compact growth habit with a pyramidal form. Camellia 'Ruby Wedding' is evergreen, not native to New Zealand, and a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'Kimberley' and Camellia x williamsii 'Dark Nite'. Camellia 'Ruby Wedding' was produced by Les Jury in New Plymouth, New Zealand and first flowered in 1987.

Uses

  • Attracts Bees
  • Hedging and Screening

Origin

  • Exotic

City Recommendations

  • Christchurch
  • Blenheim
  • Dunedin
  • Gisborne
  • Hastings
  • Napier
  • Nelson
  • Queenstown
  • Taupō
  • Tauranga
  • Wānaka
  • Whanganui
  • Whangārei

More about Camellia 'Ruby Wedding'

Plant Details

Foliage Type
  • Evergreen
Position
  • Partial shade
Soil pH
  • Acidic
Soil Moisture
  • Well-drained

Seasonal Colour

FlowerJun–Nov

Foliage

This is a general guide. When a plant flowers, fruits and colours up depends on the climate where you live and on the season. If timing matters, please reach out to our team.

Foliage Type

Evergreen plants retain foliage year-round but still shed and replace some leaves gradually as part of their normal growth cycle, rather than losing them all at once.

Deciduous plants shed all their leaves for part of the year (usually in autumn and winter), usually in response to colder temperatures or dry seasons, often producing seasonal colour before leaf drop.

Semi-evergreen plants sit between the two, keeping most of their foliage but losing some or all leaves briefly under cooler or drier conditions before quickly regrowing them.

Soil pH

When designing and planting your garden, it can be useful to know whether the soil is acid or alkaline, as different plants thrive in different soils. The soil pH is a number that describes how acid or alkaline your soil is. The soil pH scale will give you an idea of what soils a species will grow in.

Acidic soils have a pH below 7.0

Alkaline soils have a pH above 7.0

Neutral soils have a pH of 7.0

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