After the Ball is Over
“After the ball is over,
After the break of morn,
After the dancers' leaving
After the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching
If you could read them all
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball.”
Lyrics from “After the Ball is Over”, a popular 1891 song written by Charles K. Harris.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 4th of June is “one single petal”. The day that I saw the theme for this week, it was a bright, sunny autumnal day with big blue skies and glorious warm sunshine. I have a large camellia sasanqua hedge in the rear of my garden consisting of six different varieties which is a mass of blooms at present. I went hunting beneath the hedge for fallen petals and came across this Pink Plantation petal, which sitting in the shade, still had dew drops upon it from the crisp morning, sparkling like diamonds. Glistening in the sunlight like it was, the petal put me in mind of Hans Christian Andersen’s faerie tale of “Little Ida’s Flowers” where Ida’s flowers attend a ball every night, thus explaining why every day they grow more and more drooping and bedraggled. I hope you like my choice of one single petal.
Vigorous and fast growing, Camellia Sasanqua “Plantation Pink” is an upright evergreen shrub with masses of large sweetly scented single to semi-double, soft pink flowers and a wonderful centre of golden yellow stamens. The blooms occur over quite a long period between March and June in the Southern Hemisphere which makes them very popular. They are often used for hedges or to cover walls.
After the Ball is Over
“After the ball is over,
After the break of morn,
After the dancers' leaving
After the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching
If you could read them all
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball.”
Lyrics from “After the Ball is Over”, a popular 1891 song written by Charles K. Harris.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 4th of June is “one single petal”. The day that I saw the theme for this week, it was a bright, sunny autumnal day with big blue skies and glorious warm sunshine. I have a large camellia sasanqua hedge in the rear of my garden consisting of six different varieties which is a mass of blooms at present. I went hunting beneath the hedge for fallen petals and came across this Pink Plantation petal, which sitting in the shade, still had dew drops upon it from the crisp morning, sparkling like diamonds. Glistening in the sunlight like it was, the petal put me in mind of Hans Christian Andersen’s faerie tale of “Little Ida’s Flowers” where Ida’s flowers attend a ball every night, thus explaining why every day they grow more and more drooping and bedraggled. I hope you like my choice of one single petal.
Vigorous and fast growing, Camellia Sasanqua “Plantation Pink” is an upright evergreen shrub with masses of large sweetly scented single to semi-double, soft pink flowers and a wonderful centre of golden yellow stamens. The blooms occur over quite a long period between March and June in the Southern Hemisphere which makes them very popular. They are often used for hedges or to cover walls.