Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia is expected to grow 30cm to 60cm per year (moderate to fast).

• Medium Growth Rate

• Shrubs
• Screening or Privacy
• Feature Tree
• Driveway Border
• Plant in Pots (or) Suitable for Pots

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia works in an:

• Formal Garden – structured, symmetrical design with clipped shapes.
• Contemporary / Architectural Garden – striking forms for bold design statements.
• Woodland Garden – layered, naturalistic design under dappled light.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia is an Evergreen (foliage year round) Tree

Mature Height: 2m to 4m

Mature Width: 1.5m to 2.5m

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia is expected to grow 30cm to 60cm per year (moderate to fast).

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia is expected to grow 30cm to 60cm per year (moderate to fast).

They are considered to have a:

• Medium Growth Rate

Is Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia frost tolerant?

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia is Frost Tolerant – Can handle light to moderate frost once established.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ produces masses of soft pink semi-double flowers from autumn through early winter. The blooms create an elegant and long-lasting seasonal display against the glossy evergreen foliage, bringing gentle colour and softness to garden spaces.

Does Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia flower?

• Yes - Flowers

Flowering Period:

• Autumn
• Winter

Flower Type:

• Semi-double

Flower Colour:

Pink

No

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia is Native to

Its seasonal flowers provide nectar and pollen for bees and other beneficial pollinators during the cooler months when fewer plants are flowering. The dense evergreen foliage also provides valuable shelter and habitat for small birds and beneficial insects within garden settings.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia will thrive best in:

• Full Sun
• Part Shade

Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ performs best in rich, well-drained loam soils with an acidic to neutral pH. It will also tolerate lighter soils if enriched with organic matter to improve moisture retention and fertility. Avoid alkaline, compacted or waterlogged conditions, as these can reduce nutrient uptake and overall vigour. Keep soil evenly moist during establishment, then maintain moderate moisture as the plant matures for best growth and flowering performance.

Is Camellia sasanqua ‘Edna Butler’ – Edna Butler Camellia Drought tolerant?

As a young plant it benefits from regular watering to establish evenly, particularly during warmer weather. Once established, ‘Edna Butler’ shows moderate drought tolerance and performs reliably through dry periods when planted in improved soil, with occasional supplementary watering supporting dense foliage and flowering performance.

It is an evergreen shrub in the tea family, Theaceae, grown for shell pink semi double flowers and dense glossy foliage. Unlike the japonica camellias it will take full sun, and its tight upright branching makes it one of the more reliable sasanquas for clipped hedging and topiary in Australian gardens.

Left unpruned it reaches about 3 to 4 metres tall and 2 metres wide in most gardens. It responds well to trimming, so a hedge is easily held at 1.5 to 2 metres. Height builds slowly over the first few years, then fills out once the root system is away.

Expect 30 to 60 centimetres of new growth a year once established, which is a moderate rate for a shrub of this size. Growth is faster in warm temperate gardens with reliable water and slower in cold or dry positions. Planting an advanced specimen shortens the wait to a finished hedge considerably.

Flowering starts in autumn, usually from April, and carries through into winter, often to July depending on the season and your district. Individual blooms are short lived but they open in succession over several months, so the display holds well. Cool nights bring out the strongest pink tones.

Three, alongside the natural bush form. The ball form is a clipped sphere on a short frame, suited to pairs at an entry or repeated down a path. The cone form is an even tapered pyramid, the formal choice for flanking a doorway or gate. The hedge form is grown wide and dense rather than shaped, so a run of them gives you a finished hedge on the day it goes in. All three flower through autumn and winter the same as the bush form.

Trim lightly twice a year, in late winter once flowering has finished and again in mid summer. Work to the existing outline rather than cutting deep, and take a little off often instead of a lot at once. Sasanquas set next season’s buds on the growth made after the late winter trim, so pruning at that point costs you nothing in flower.

Set plants 80 centimetres to 1 metre apart for a dense hedge that closes over in two to three seasons. Tighter spacing at 60 centimetres will knit faster, but the plants then compete for water. For a looser screen where each shrub keeps its own outline, allow 1.5 metres.

Yes. Once established it handles light to moderate frost without damage, which covers most of the temperate mainland and the tablelands. Young plants in their first winter are more vulnerable, so a mulch over the root zone and a position out of the worst wind helps them through.

Water deeply through the first two summers, mulch to keep the roots cool, and feed with an azalea and camellia fertiliser after flowering finishes in late winter. Prune straight after the last blooms drop so the new wood has time to set buds. Keep the mulch clear of the trunk.