Camellias! As hardy as I could find.
I blame the writer Eudora Welty for my recent purchase of camellias (Camellia japonica) for my garden.
A while back, I read Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949, edited by Julia Eichelberger). In nearly every letter to her publisher, Welty mentions her camellias.
I knew as I read the letters that camellias are not hardy
In the Garden of Southern Follies and Delights
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