Alabama Beauty Camellia is one of the first camellias to bloom in Fall. It blooms profusely with a rosy-red semi-double flowers. Alabama Beauty makes an excellent hedge or privacy screen. Camellias are evergreen shrubs which provide year round structure in your landscape, and color when everything else has stopped blooming. When planting this shrub, dig the hole twice as wide as the pot and mix rich garden soil in with your native soil, then leave the top of the root ball 1/2 inch above the ground level when filling the hole with soil. Use a slow release granular fertilizer in Spring. Not guaranteed to be in bloom on arrival.