The Beauty of Ephemeral Things
This morning, as I worked from my home office, I chanced to look out across my rear garden when something colourful caught my eye: a cascade of pink petals carpeting the ground beneath my camellia hedge, highlighted by a long ray of autumnal sunshine.
I rushed out with my camera before the light was obscured by cloud, or shifted from its perfect position, and as I looked at the numerous petals tumbled upon the ground, I noticed that they were decorated with glittering drops of dew, like sparkling jewels.
Even as they fall to earth, the ephemeral petals of the camellia still provide such beauty, if only we open our eyes and see it.
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.
The Beauty of Ephemeral Things
This morning, as I worked from my home office, I chanced to look out across my rear garden when something colourful caught my eye: a cascade of pink petals carpeting the ground beneath my camellia hedge, highlighted by a long ray of autumnal sunshine.
I rushed out with my camera before the light was obscured by cloud, or shifted from its perfect position, and as I looked at the numerous petals tumbled upon the ground, I noticed that they were decorated with glittering drops of dew, like sparkling jewels.
Even as they fall to earth, the ephemeral petals of the camellia still provide such beauty, if only we open our eyes and see it.
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.