Yep, they self sow! Congrats on your new plant.

@UpperBayGardener (zone 7), thank you! I am thrilled. We have red and pink camellias, and I have been wanting to get white and yellow too. But these 2 colors never show up locally. And due to the ever worsening deer situation it is very hard for a small camellia plant to establish without heavy protection.

This is the second time I got a white flowering plant from seeds probably due to mutation. We grow a few pomegranate plants from Wonderful fruits seeds in Costco and one blooms white flowers. Rest are all reds

Lovely white camellia and that first photo is lovely.

Agree - that first photo is beautiful! I almost always like pink better than white but I'm starting to come around to white blooms, and you camellia is really lovely!

:)

Dee

@tete_a_tete, @diggerdee zone 6 CT, thank you! It almost looks like a gardenia bloom, isn’t it?

I assume I can’t expect a yellow camellia offspring? Hopefully I can find one in the stores someday locally

Do you remember the name of the pink one?

@UpperBayGardener (zone 7), I wish I knew too. The tag was long gone if there was one. We got it from HomeDepot (or maybe Lowes?) so it must be a common variety. It has very strong and somewhat earthy fragrance

Newbie do you feel like there are many of these in SE Virginia? I hear from people I know that they are uncommon, which is unfortunate. And even over in Houston, a gardener there I know says he's familiar with spring blooming camellias, but not the fall blooming ones. (he is a rare fruit grower, so ornamentals aren't really his thing but he knows plants overall, very well) Maybe either SE VA and Houston are at the edges of the real camellia country and they'd be more common along the eastern gulf coast and SC/GA coasts, but I don't know anyone to ask!

There used to be a nice planting of fall blooming camellias at the 'Chesapeake House' Maryland highway rest stop, alas, when they rebuilt the building, they were all replaced by drab, dull, PC native landscaping. I increasingly see the hardy Ackerman hybrids at public gardens in SE PA, so that's a good thing at least.

@UpperBayGardener (zone 7), I would not think camellias or even fall blooming camellias are uncommon in our area. We have 5 fall blooming onesin our yard to start with and they are ready to reseed so we have a lot now. On the other hand we only have 2 spring blooming ones(one is the only red we have) and they have’t reseeded. So I always think fall blooming camellias are more common. But thinking over, there could be more spring blooming camellias in the area, especially the reds. The problem with the reds are they tend to ball in the cold and wet spring. It took many years for ours to bloom reliably.

just a guess but it resembles my plant of 'pink snow' in size and bloom form. my shrub is also quite large and i have it in an area where i can allow it to grow unpruned. it is quite a visual at the edge of the woods even now at less than peak flowering.

@jeff_al, thank you so much! I think you are right on the name Pink Snow, particularly at this site the pictures look just like mine. Petals are double but loose. The only mismatch is Pink Snow is described as Not Fragrant but ours is very fragrant witha touch of earthy scent. Jeff, Is your plant fragrant?

Above picture from https://nurcar.com/products/camellia-sasanqua-pink-snow

It is really a stunning shrub when in bloom.

As to the white offspring, we decided to name it as our cat Cloudy who just passed away this spring. I read that the best time to move a camellia is from November to February so we already moved it to the free spot close by. We also transplanted another 7 seedling plants to the pine grove by the drive way, 5 of them from “Pink Snow”. A few have bloomed already and I am curious to see if we could have something new

Forever, does your white flowered Pomegranate produce fruit? If so what are they like?

@floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK, the white flowered pomegranate barely produces fruits, just a couple small, hard and underdeveloped ones. I read that the whites are not a good producer, but we mainly should blame us for not providing good condition. All of the pomegranate trees are planted very far from the house. We never water them, and only apply fertilizer once a year or two. They bloom well in the summer so we are contented

i guess i would call it fragrant but not sweet or perfumy like other flowers. the bees seem to like it, too. most of the open-centered camellias can have a slight floral fragrance, especially on a warm fall or winter day but, as you describe it, more of an earthy scent but definitely a scent that i do not find unpleasant.

C. 'Scented Snow' is fairly strongly scented - that's how it got the name - but it's not a knock out memorable fragrance like Gardenias or Lilies. As you say, sweet, maybe just a bit 'earthy'.

@jeff_al, @UpperBayGardener (zone 7): thank you both! I think it settles the name of Pink Snow all right. Yeah 🐝s love them. At this time, Mexican Sage and Pineapple sage finally gave in to the hard frost, so camellias are the main food for pollinators

It is the Camellias time again. Our 2 spring blooming camellias are putting a show

I really like this red camellia and people keep asking about it. The tag was long gone. I wish I could find a seedling but never did

The pink camellia blooms are much smaller and semi double.

There seems more blooms and buds on the ground

Happy spring gardening

I think the red camellia is ”Black Tie”, according to this site https://shop.brownswoodnursery.com/item/2171/Camellia-Japonica-Black-Tie-Red-15G Their picture looks just like mine.

Above picture from browns wood nursery site

The white camellia ”Cloudy” is blooming again after moved to a new location

I tried to air layer the top but failed. The cutting healed and no roots were developed. I might try again in spring

Meanwhile, the Pink Snow is blooming crazy

Another no-Id camellia