When the camellias are blooming it's an especially beautiful day in the neighborhood. What do you see? When I walk the dog, stroll with my wife or drive the car, I slow down when I see friends, birds and flowers. The cell phone remains in a pocket deliberately turned off and maybe even left at home. It's time to enjoy the birds and flowers, leaving worries and problems for another time. I listen to the bird songs to identify and locate them. I smell the roses and search for camellia flowers. I noticemany insects, especially butterflies and praying mantis. I find many newly built and renovated homes without camellias and frequently little in bloom especially during the winter. The older homes, both large and small, have more interesting and more mature trees and flowers. In fact in my neighborhood almost all the homes built before the 1980s have^everal mature camellias. The fun begins in seeing the first blooms in the fall. In my neighborhood it is always C. sasanqua 'Hugh Evans'. (Figure 1: Photoof'Hugh Evans'.)
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