Winter blossoms

When Winter raises its dreary head, the skies are grey with cloud, the leaves have fallen and gardens begin to look a little bare, out pops the beautiful pink camellias.  

These camellias (camellia japonica) are a little different to the camellia's we collect our nectar from (camellia sasanqua's) they have a more full flower and some even have the double flower like this red one.  

Our garden has many of these camellias, when in full blossom there is a carpet of pink petals which I love.  I pick up the heavy flowers that have fallen and put them on our front steps and balcony, it's my way of keeping the beautiful colours around as long as possible.

We have so many different ones dotted around our garden, planted long ago but my favourite is the soft pink one below that has layers and layers of soft pink petals.  

We are very fortunate to be the recipients of such beauty and hard work from previous owners as our garden is always full of suprises.  We also have popping up every year the little white lilly of the valley.  Sorry no pics our camera is in being fixed at the moment but will get a picture on its return.