Week of January 6

This week marks the height of the camellia season with the annual Gainesville Camellia Society show at the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.  Our Florida Home now has 38 camellia bushes plus 5 rooting in our nursery.  When we bought our home in 2013, we had three.  The 38 include 2 Reticulata, 5 Sansanqua, 2 Sinensis (tea) and 29 Japonica.  Most live in the shade of our backyard, under the canopy of oaks.  Flowers so varied and beautiful on our morning walks in January is a real treat; a bowl full of their flowers for the table even better.  Pictures of some varieties attached.

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