{"id":22324,"date":"2022-11-12T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22324"},"modified":"2022-11-18T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:49:54","slug":"camellia-winters-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22324","title":{"rendered":"Camellia \u2018Winter&#8217;s Star\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22326\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_20221112_005157.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22326\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_20221112_005157-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Camellia \u2018Winter&#039;s Star\u2019\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_20221112_005157-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_20221112_005157-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_20221112_005157-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_20221112_005157-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_20221112_005157.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camellia \u2018Winter&#8217;s Star\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love camellias of all types and although they are still not very large, I have six in the ground and one more ready to be planted. One that I planted in April, 2020, is a hybrid called \u2018Winter&#8217;s Star\u2019 that was developed by Dr. William Ackerman and introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum in 1991. This is similar to the <em>Camellia sasanqua<\/em> \u2018Cleopatra\u2019 that my dad had, and which survived better than most in very cold winters. This one is a cross between <em>Camellia oleifera<\/em> \u2018Lu Shan Snow\u2019 (for its cold hardiness) and <em>Camellia hiemalis<\/em> \u2018Showa-no-sakae\u2019 (for its flower form) and is considered to be hardier still. Native from North India to China and Japan south to Northern Indonesia, Java and Sumatra, many are not reliably hardy this far north. Anything that blooms this nicely the second week of November is a winner in my book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love camellias of all types and although they are still not very large, I have six in the ground and one more ready to be planted. One that I planted in April, 2020, is a hybrid called \u2018Winter&#8217;s Star\u2019 that was developed by Dr. William Ackerman and introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[3264,2286,3265,3263,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22329,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions\/22329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}