Welcome to my Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD). During the winter months, please feel free to use your archives and find some old favorite photos.
Please feel free to post every day or when you you feel like it. Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts gardens, leaves and berries as well as flowers.
My camellia trees are starting to get buds. This is an old photo of one of mine.
I’ve gathered a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.
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Cee
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I love camellias. I grew them in England but they do not do well in the Ontario climate.
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I wouldn’t think they’d do well there 😀 😀
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Nope. Too cold in winter and maybe too hot in summer for them in Ontario.
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awe so so pretty Cee! ❤
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Thanks 😀
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Getting buds is always exciting 🙂
https://coolesse.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/upcycled-unicorn-planter/
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Great photo! I have a bunch just starting to bloom in my front garden.
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Mine are pretty much in the shade, so they are late bloomers 😀
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Mine are in the shade mostly, but they seem to be early bloomers–early for spring, I think? I am sharing a few interestingly colored ones in my FOTD down below. I love how there’s so many different kinds of camellias.
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Looks so amazing 🙂
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They are a fun flower 😀
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Beautiful flowers. 🙂
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Thanks Maria 😀
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I don’t think I’ve seen those for real’ I’ll have to keep my eye out 😃
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This is the place I’ve seen there. I’ve always lived (as an adult) in cooler climates. They are much more popular in the south 😀
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I love camellias!! Some folks in the adjacent street grow some beautiful ones. Thanks for this beautiful post to start the week!
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My pleasure 😀 😀
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so beautiful, I do love these plants
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So do I 😀
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Beautiful flower!!
Tiny Purple Flowers
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Lovely! Your camellia prompts me to do two things, visit the Longwood Gardens Conservatory soon, and second, look through my photo cache to find the photographs I have taken of the camellia blooms at Longwood. Good inspiration today Cee. Thanks.
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I look forward to seeing some photos from you 😀
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I just had an email that the new orchid space will be opening up on the weekend. I can’t wait to see it…will wait a bit though…the crowds will be large.
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Wait til the crowds go away. It much more peaceful and easy to take photos :
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So beautiful Cee!
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Thanks Aletta 😀
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Beautiful camellia, one of my fav flowers. They don’t do well in TX.
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I wonder why. Are you too dry for them?
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And TX summer heat. ☹️
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That’s true 😀
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Very pretty these are!
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Thanks Sandy 😀
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Lovely photo, I do like camellias!
This is mine for today:
https://wanderlustig2019.wordpress.com/2022/02/21/fotd-february-21-coffee-beans/
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If I’m not mistaken, camellias have an incredibly rich scent too. I have never grown them, but I think (correct me if I am wrong) have a wonderful scent and are not merely beautiful to look at. I am still awaiting buds. I was hoping it would be soon. I think I’ll go water my plants and whisper sweet nothings to them.
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I had to look up camellias since I don’t know much about them. Their scent is not overwhelming on the whole, but there are a couple varieties people say really give off a nice scent. The one thing I do know is that the entire bloom will fall to the ground when they die off. The don’t drop individual petals. They are used at grave bouquets alot and are planted in cemeteries, because they aren’t as trashy looks with petals falling everywhere.
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