Do you remember the trials and tribulations I had back when I first started this blog, because Karma Camellia wasn't flowering, all the ones at Wisley had already flowered and even the neglected bush in my neighbour's garden was in full bloom?
And do you remember that it was 17th April before it flowered, when I had almost given up hope? Well, this was it this morning:
By the weekend, when my mum comes to visit, it'll have half a dozen of those babies open.
This is the first thing to flower in Jurassic Park all year (I think my witch hazel is dead...), and a definite sign that spring is here, but I can't help but wonder (in my capacity as chief nerd in our household) why there's this six-week difference. He's even beaten the neighbour's bush into flower.
I bought the Camellia from a garden centre in Paisley, where my in-laws live. They had a 2007-2008 winter easily as bad as the 2008-2009 winter we had in the Tropic of Isleworth. The buds were already out when I bought it at the end of January, but took two and a half months to mature and flower. This year they've appeared and flowered in about one and a half months.
Is it just that Karma has had the love and attention of Yours Truly for over a year and has rewarded me with flowering when he's goddamn supposed to? Or do camellias flourish when they get a really biting frosty winter? Was the compost I gave him better when I repotted him in the late summer? I'd just like to know what I did right over the past year so I can carry on doing it!
And do you remember that it was 17th April before it flowered, when I had almost given up hope? Well, this was it this morning:
By the weekend, when my mum comes to visit, it'll have half a dozen of those babies open.
This is the first thing to flower in Jurassic Park all year (I think my witch hazel is dead...), and a definite sign that spring is here, but I can't help but wonder (in my capacity as chief nerd in our household) why there's this six-week difference. He's even beaten the neighbour's bush into flower.
I bought the Camellia from a garden centre in Paisley, where my in-laws live. They had a 2007-2008 winter easily as bad as the 2008-2009 winter we had in the Tropic of Isleworth. The buds were already out when I bought it at the end of January, but took two and a half months to mature and flower. This year they've appeared and flowered in about one and a half months.
Is it just that Karma has had the love and attention of Yours Truly for over a year and has rewarded me with flowering when he's goddamn supposed to? Or do camellias flourish when they get a really biting frosty winter? Was the compost I gave him better when I repotted him in the late summer? I'd just like to know what I did right over the past year so I can carry on doing it!
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