This camellia is a super freak. It has thousands of buds on it.
I stand back and examine it in amazement.
Those pink flowers never disappoint.
Jean May works hard to please.
What a wonderful shrub!
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Lovely Day with Jean May
Jean May Camellia sasanqus
Think Pink
Jean May has gone crazy again.
How can she do what she does?
She’s pushing a million pink petals among her green leaves.
Every year I say she cannot burst out better.
Then she goes and does it again.
Jean May is one crazy Camellia sasanqua!
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Ode to Jean May
Every fall just as the days get shorter and the flowers start dying
a glorious angel appears in my garden.
The season becomes brighter because of her blooms.
Her name is Jean May.
She is a Camellia sasanqua.
When the darkness of fall starts to dampen my spirits,
Jean May comes to my rescue,
to remind me everything has its season.
I love Jean May with all my heart.
She is a blessing.
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Camellias: Too Hip to Be Square
I first saw this beautiful Camellia sasanqua decades ago in a church yard.
A wise (or maybe careless) person left the plant tag on it. That’s how I learned its name.
This particular church has a big barbecue the same week as my daddy’s birthday.
My family has gone to this barbecue every year for over thirty years.
So each November, I have looked forward to eating the wonderful food and seeing this shrub in bloom.
In 1994, I found a Jean May Camellia sasanqua of my own. Â
I love its evergreen leaves, its white bark, its open shape and its dreamy pink blooms.
I even love when it loses its petals. It’s like pink confetti.
Jean the Party Queen throwing her own fall festival.
I am not sure of when this happened, but several years ago some well-meaning person trimmed the church’s Jean May.
I arrived at the BBQ to find a square shrub with only a few blooms visible. No confetti. No petal party.
Square shrubs make me scream.
There is such a thing as plant abuse. (Just ask a Crepe Myrtle.)
Just because there is no bite with their bark, doesn’t mean they don’t have feelings.
So my dream Jean May shrub at the church is now square.
But my own Jean May is a giant delight.
If you have a square shrub, please at least go out and cut off its corners.
You don’t want to find FLOWER in your yard screaming.
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