‘R.L. Wheeler’ grows some of the biggest flowers in the camellia world — rose-pink, semi-double to anemone form with a heavy ring of golden stamens, often wider than your open hand, starting early in the season.

It's a vigorous, upright japonica that appreciates morning sun or high shade, afternoon protection, and acidic, well-drained soil. Give it room to become the specimen it wants to be; the flower show stops visitors in their tracks.