Nice falling snow!

At the nursery, the blooming Snow Flurries I saw, just prior to Thanksgiving, never looked as lovely. But such otherwise easily ignored blooms; certainly shine forth gloriously, when situated in front of a background which is so void of backlighting as appears in your posted photo.

Simply, beautiful!

I have planted at least 10 of these beautiful plants this fall and look forward to a great show. Snow Flurry has a bunch of unopened blooms, and I check every day in anticipation of then open up and shine. Gaalan, you said it took you several years to see the blooms? Oy! You are in my area. Does that mean mine will wait for that long? I sure hope they are "early bloomers". My patience is not that good (even though I am a gardener). :-).
Enjoy your fall everyone. There are so much still blooming and enjoying life in my garden.
~Natalie

I planted my first 5 gallon Camellia japonica 'Rosea Plena' a few weekds ago. We are getting ready to have a first frost here in zone 8 TX. Will it harm any of my buds as it has probably 40!! I was told to cover it to protect buds? I have a 1 gallon 'Scentsation' and plan to put it in the garage. It has 4 unopened buds. Will they bloom or does it usually take a few years to get established?
Camellia lover!!

I planted the snow flurry at the Z6B/A NJ erea two years
ago. Last year it flowered starting at Nov. 5. This year
it started at Oct. 20, two weeks earlier than last year.
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It shows that the snow flurry can really grows well and flowers well in the Z6 area.

y'all have probably seen these plants before but they have been "flower making machines" this year.
these were taken this week. i had planned to grow 'pink snow' as a clipped shrub but later decided to just let it go upward so i need to do a bit of corrective pruning on one side. it is growing behind a crape myrtle and will eventually return to its normal habit of tall, upright with slightly pendulous branch tips.
'shishi gashira' is a low, spreading plant and was almost completely covered in those hot pink flowers!

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This is as close to having snow here as I care to get.
I love the effect of fallen petals on the ground.
This tree is more than 40 years old.

Nell

Here is a link that might be useful: White Camellia

Beautiful plants everyone! The name Snow Flurry is very apt now, one week later. It looks like Nell's plant, covering the ground with snow!

Ermazi thats why the Ackerman plants are so great, that they can take the cold in your area. What is the lowest temp you've had in two years with your plant?

Jeff very nice Shishigashira! I have one that I planted 4 or 5 years ago that I just discoverd the other day is actually two different plants! I've been thinking for a while that some of its flowers didn't match the description of Shishi. I was looking closely the other morning and realized that over half my plant is not true Shishi, but perhaps Sparkling Burgundy. There is a lower part of the plant does have flowers matching the description which made me realize, after all this time, I have two plants in one! Take a look at a picture of the whole thing from May 5 this year and you can clearly see the differences! I recalled taking this photo when I was scrutinizing the flowers the other day, so I literally put two and two together!

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The part with all the new growth around the bottom is the true Shishigashira!

Depends on one's preference. The plant was very possible a grafted plant. Shishi is understock. The top plant was suposed to be the intended plant. Now you have three options:

leave both plants.
trim off branches of Shishi and let only top plant to grow.
Cut off top plant and only let Shishi to grow.

My very first thought was to remove the top. Whatever it is, it does flower heavily, but the flowers are not as nice as those on the parts that are true Shishi. I'm torn because I hate to remove that much plant! The only reason I even consider removing it, is in case it might someday smother out the true Shishi underneath. I don't know what to do!!

I bought Snow Flurry in May 2002. This year it had 60+ flower buds. It is by far my strongest bloomer and had not received any fertilizer or much supplemental water.

In 2005 it bloomed Oct to January. This year it bloomed very nicely from October to Dec about 60 days.

pontesmanny