Camellia Sasanqua 'Stephanie Golden' is a moderate growing shrub that can be grown in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 7A through 9B. It matures to an average height of 5 feet to 10 feet and an average width of 4 feet to 8 feet, depending on climate and other environmental factors. It prefers growing in a location that provides morning sun with afternoon shade or filtered sun and grows best when planted in sand, loam, clay or silt soil that is well drained. In the fall Stephanie Golden Camellia Sasanqua produces pink flowers. The foliage is dark green in color. It attracts visual attention and is resistant to heat.

Stephanie Golden Camellia Sasanqua can be useful in the landscape along woodland borders, in foundation plantings, as a background, in shrub borders, under a shade tree, as a focal point, in landscape beds or islands, to frame the corners of a home or other building, to add property value or grown flat against a wall and also in theme gardens, cottage gardens or shade gardens.

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Noteworthy Characteristics

Stephanie Golden Camellia Sasanqua is a truly stunning sasanqua variety that produces a profuse abundance of gorgeous, semi-double, hot pink blooms with bright yellow stamens. Truly outstanding cut flower. It has a dense, compact habit and handsome, glossy, dark green foliage produces an exceptional evergreen for backgrounds.

Uses

Stephanie Golden is a lower growing camellia that can be used to create colorful, evergreen hedges or small to large groups of color in landscape beds. Its smaller size lends perfectly for use in home foundation plantings.  It can also be "limbed up" to form an attractive, small evergreen tree which can be used as a specimen or in small groupings in landscape beds or home foundation plantings. It is perfect for use as espalier: trained to grow flat against a open wall.

Culture

Camellias prefer a fertile, moist but well-drained, acidic soil. Constantly soggy soil is a slow killer. Your new camellia should not need regular watering after the first year unless there are extended periods of dry weather during summer. Camellias do best in partial shade or filtered sun. Avoid afternoon direct sun

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USDA Zones:  7A-9B

Species:  Sasanqua

Bloom Color:  Hot Pink

Bloom Size:  2.5 to 3 inches

Bloom Form:  Semi-Double

Bloom Season:  Fall to Mid Winter 

Growth Habit:  Upright, Dense, Compact 

Maintainable Height:  3-5 feet

Maintainable Width:  3-4 feet

Light Preferences:  Filtered shade to light sun

Plant Uses:  Hedge, Landscape Beds, Backgrounds, Flowering Shrub Borders, Small Groupings, Large Groupings, Specimen, Foundation Plant, Large Containers