Sea Foam Camellia

I just bought Sea Foam to plant in the garden I am building for my mother.  Above, that is the tag on the plant that displays the flower.

I try to do some reading before I buy a camellia, sometimes it's as sparse as reading the handwritten notes in my favorite nursery (The Arbor Gate) that sit in front of a group of camellias.  Sometimes they are very excited about a camellia and write a glowing note about it.  Other times I surf the net to see what people are saying about a particular variety.  Bobby Green (a very well known camellia grower and enthusiast and nursery owner wrote this about Sea Foam:

Consider the case of Camellia japonica ‘Sea Foam’,  which was lost in an ocean of new cultivars when it was registered in 1962.  In fact it was released with little fanfare being described in Camellia Nomenclature as "White. formal double, upright growth. Introduced in USA by Weisner." That's kind of like describing Julia Roberts as simply "Tall".  A little detective work indicates the originator must be J. T. Weisner of Fenandina Beach, Florida. Like so many “new” camellias of its era, until its rediscovery in the early 1990s, it was likely never grown in wholesale quantities. When I happened upon it in a long-abandoned nursery it was competing well for space, towering over its ligustrum and eleagnus rivals.  In fact the only competition for the diminishing sunlight was the vigorous, tree-like Camellia japonica ‘Drama Girl’.  Yet, year after year the pride of Mr. Weisner bloomed profusely like an undiscovered star smashing home runs in a sandlot. What we had stumbled upon proved to be one of the most vigorous camellias ever grown in a nursery setting with flowers that rival ‘Alba Plena‘ for perfection among whites.   Now, some fifty plus years after Mr. Weisner planted the seed, ‘Sea Foam’ is probably the most widely grown white Camellia japonica in the southeast- and deservedly so.  Why do I go to such lengths to illustrate a point?  Pure serendipity often plays a huge role in what ends up being grown in the garden, plus, without any marketing, one of the best camellias took nearly fifty years to reach gardeners.