At Paradise Plants Bob Cherry has been breeding superior sasanqua Camellia's since the late 1970's. In this time he's grown over 20,000 seedlings and to date has selected just a few for as being good enough to wear the Paradise label.

The first of these arrived in New Zeland in 1999 with the promise of many more to come.

Below you'll find plants whose charactistics show some of the following improvements when compared with ordinary sasanqua camellia; longer flowering, improved harsh weather tolerance and stronger flowers, better perfume, improved growth habits, new colours, and improved sun-tolerance.

You'll find plants that are great as garden specimens, hedges, patio pots and tubs, topiary, espaliers and even bonsai.

Enjoy!

Paradise Belinda
An outstanding producer of large brilliant glowing pink flowers with a stunning flower centre which is a combination of stamens, petaloids, and small petals. A dense and compact habit with glossy dark green leaves, providing an ideal contrast to the vibrant flowers. An ideal hedging specimen growing naturally to 2-3 metres.

Paradise Blush
A landscapers dream: neat, upright, slender and quick growing. Flowers are medium in size, semi-double with deep pink buds, opening to almost white with a pink reverse on the outer petals. Producing masses of flowers against dark shiny green leaves, it is excellent as a hedging or screen plant, and also suitable as an attractive tub or garden specimen. Unpruned, it will reach 3-4 metres.

Paradise Gillian
Produces delicate semi-double, with the ocassional fromal double blooms, white faintly edged with soft pink against a background of shiny green foliage. Vigorous and upright in habit, suitable for a medium hedge.

Paradise Glow
Similar to, but an improved version of ‘Plantation Pink’. Flowers are a large deep glowing pink, single with a centre of bright yellow stamens set against dark glossy green leaves. This variety has an upright, slightly open habit.

Paradise Helen
A free flowering sasanqua with an elegant upright growth habit. Masses of brilliant pink buds are produced which open white with delicate soft pink shading. Flowers are medium in size, informal double with golden yellow stamens mixed with small petals and petaloids. Flowering over a long period, it is quick growing to around 3 metres, making an excellent screen or garden specimen.

Paradise Hilda
A vigorous upright grower, producing medium-sized mid-pink flowers in the form of an open peony. This plant flowers early in the season and continues over a long period. A quick growing variety, making it very suitable for hedges and screens, at a maximum of 2-3 metres.

Paradise Joan
Produces very showy large red loose informal double flowers with a centre of golden stamens. Starts with an open habit which becomes dense with age and has a long flowering period. This sasanqua is a worthy asset to any winter garden. Ideal to espalier, and if not trained or pruned will grow to 3-4 metres.

Paradise Little Liane
A small-leafed, compact autumn flowering camellia growing to around a metre tall. Flowers are small white with a faint pink margin and a loose informal peony form. The centre is a mixture of stamens, petaloids and small petals. This sasanqua was specially selected because of its dense compact flowering habit, making it suitable for low hedges and topiary. One of the earliest varieties in the Paradise range.

Paradise Pearl
Flowers in profusion over a long period. Flowers are large, mostly semi-double with occasional formal double blooms. Flower buds are pink opening to white. Growth habit is upright and compact with dark glossy green leaves. It can eventually reach 2-3 metres.

Paradise Petite
One of the first of the Paradise range of dwarf sasanquas. Flowers are small, soft pink in the form of a loose informal peony. The flower centre is composed of stamens, petaloids, and small petals which provide a very attractive combination set against small-leafed dark green foliage. A small dense habit, to about a metre tall, makes it ideal for clipping into topiary or for small hedges.

Paradise Venessa
An outstanding variety with very large brilliant white flowers which have a pink flush on the outer petals and a number of petaloid stamens. A vigorous upright growth habit, around 3-4 metres, makes it ideal as a hedge or screen. Paradise Plants’ most popular variety.

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