Yuletide camellia

Like the stores, my garden seems to have finished with Halloween, skipped Thanksgiving, and moved straight on to Christmas! This Yuletide camellia is supposed to bloom in December, but it's blooming now. It's flowers are really pretty--a bluer pink than this photo captures. I added some parsley to the vases just because I had it and thought it would be a nice contrast to the more somber camellia foliage.

This photo revealed something my eye hadn't seen--the way you can see the green leaf through the petals of the flower on the the lower right.