Ack-Scent Camellia Japonica Camellia japonica‘Ack-Scent’ Plant DetailsUSDA Plant Hardiness Zones:6a-9b Find Your Zone Plant Type:Evergreen Flowering ShrubSpecies:Japonica (Winter, Spring blooming)Height at Maturity: 8-10′ depending on pruningWidth at Maturity: 6-8′ depending on pruningSpacing:5′ for hedges; 10’ for space between plants Flower Color:PinkFlower Size: Large, 5″Flowering Period: Late Winter, Early SpringFlower Type: Double, Peony FormFragrant Flowers: YesFoliage Color: Dark GreenFragrant Foliage: NoBerries:NoBerry Color: NA Sun Needs: Morning Sun with Afternoon Shade or Filtered Sun, All Day Filtered SunWater Needs:Average, Lower when establishedSoil Type:Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), SiltSoil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained MoistSoil pH: 5.0 – 6.5 (Acid) Maintenance / Care: LowAttracts: Visual AttentionResistances: Deer –more info, Drought (when established), Heat, HumidityIntolerances:Direct Afternoon Sun, Constantly Soggy SoilDescription A U.S. National Arboretum introduction, ‘Ack-Scent’ is a small to mid-size Camellia japonica with an upright growth habit that produces an abundance of absolutely gorgeous, large and fragrant peony-form pink flowers in late winter and early spring. Adding an extra touch of beauty, a cylinder of white filaments with bright yellow anthers peek out from the center of each flower. To enjoy the flowers indoors display several cuttings in a vase or float just one in a bowl of water. Landscape & Garden UsesGrowing 8-10 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide, Ack-Scent Camellia can be grown as a large shrub or small tree. As a shrub, it is ideal for use as a hedge or background plant, in groupings, and is especially nice as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall.) When “limbed up” to form a small tree it serves well as an attractive and colorful specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. Great for cottage gardens, cut flower gardens, to frame corners, as a single specimen shrub or tree, screen or windbreak plantings, home foundations, in woodland gardens, and woodland borders. Also suitable for containers that can be brought indoors overwinter for those who live above USDA Zone 6a, where not winter hardy.
