Blogs during the month of February would be incomplete without an update on the CAMELLIAS in our Florida garden. When most of the US is dealing with blizzards and bone-chilling frost, our Florida home has warm days and chilly nights, perfect for camellias. We have four species with C. Sasanqua already blooming around Christmas with large bushes on each side of our front door covered with dainty pink blossoms. Next come our two C. Sinensis bushes which blossum a bit later. I will prune them soon to stimulate buds to harvest for tea. The two blooming now are C. Japonica and C. Reticulata, with our well established bush at the back edge of the house constantly in bloom for a month. We have about two dozen camellias across the back with many varieties, most of which I do not know since the squirrels carried off the labels. The bushes are becoming well established with nice growth of foliage and provide a range of colors, petal size and form, etc. We continue to be out-classed by our neighbor, Dina, who has very old bushes two stories high covered with large blooms, which we enjoy while looking out our south windows. Camellias clearly welcome the Florida spring and the azaleas and other spring flowers can’t be far behind.
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