Camellias

I have many different favorite flowers, depending on which season you ask me, but for Jan/Feb my top pick has to be the Camellia. They come in so many varieties and bloom so profusely! Even their leaves are pretty to me. There are a lot of camellias that grow in the Atlanta area and there isn't a shrub that is much more southern to me than a Camellia growing in an old cemetery with spanish moss hanging from the limbs. Magnolia trees are also very southern to me, but they don't bloom until summer.

I took these photos in the cemetery at Christ Church on St. Simons Island. I grew up just south of here in Jacksonville, FL so I love the towns and barrier islands along south Georgia and North Florida. I commented to my sister that we never visited these islands when I was growing up, but I am glad I am able to come as an adult!

Some of the camellias are just so soft and simple like the ones in the first two photos while others really put on a show like the following two.

I am currently working on coloring a set of letters of the alphabet, each having a flower that begins with that letter (from Serendipity Stamps) and the flower for the letter "C" is Camilla.

More to come from Christ Church!