Camellias are a fovorite of ours, as well... Problem is that about 99% of folks have been told they aren't hardy in Zone 6B... That is not at all correct... While the more southern hybrids aren't, Dr. Charles Ackerman of Maryland has made it his life's work to hybridize cold hardy camellias and we have living proff that they will florish... The main thing with them is not to put them where they will get morning sun... The sun melts the protective ice on the buds from the even coler ambiant temperatures...

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