Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide'

A Yuletide Memory Postponed
 

Time confuses me as I thought that I had purchased a Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’ just in the last four years. That could not be the case as Rosemary died on Dec 9 2020 and for at least three years before she would nag me in about the second week of December to go and look for this camellia that blooms near Christmas. It seemed that the camellia was not all that hardy and it would die.

This year my camellia survived from last year but (a big but) it did not bloom until a few days ago. Why would this be? My suspicion is that those camellias from the past were grown in a greenhouse so they were forced to bloom earlier.

Whichever I look at this I can only smile when I enter or leave my house as my camellia is on a stone block outside. It has only two blooms. I cut them both for this blog without having second thoughts.

This camellia, like all the plants in my garden, have (flowers or not) the lovely face of my Rosemary.