Pink Snow Sasanqua. When driving down Berckmans Road in Augusta next to the Augusta National Gold Club, I noticed this Sasanqua over the hedge of Tea Olives in Westover Cemetery. I had never seen a Sasanqua with this many flowers. It was a medium pink with semi-double flowers. After sending pictures to Gene Phillips, he immediately identified it as 'Pink Snow'. He said that one of his neighbors directly across the street had one flowering at the same time in his garden. It was originated in Beaumont, TX by Paul E. Hines and was a chance seedling found under a plant of 'Mine-no-yuki'. It has the same growth pattern of its parent, somewhat spreading. But it has one of the heaviest flower bud set of any Camellia that I have ever seen. The plant pictured was growing in full sun on a sandy soil, not irrigated, and probably rarely fertilized, in Westover Cemetery, Augusta, GA.
Zones 7-9
