Spring in Seattle

[kate_schaefer]

Hah! It's spring in Seattle. Crocuses are blooming in my backyard. So is the flowering quince, but that means nothing; the quince flowers all year long.

Perhaps some day soon there will be enough sunshine for the crocuses to be open as well as blooming...

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[shikzoid.livejournal.com]

My camellia is blooming!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

We offed our camellia 11 years ago, when we planted the wisteria. At least, we intended to off the camellia. It had been planted way too close to the house, and its roots were actually coiled around the water pipe leading to the house, not what one wants in a sturdy shrub.

It's hard to kill a camellia unless one removes every cell of the plant, and even then maybe one ought to burn over the ground and sow it with salt. Given that we wanted to grow other plants there, that wasn't an option. The camellia is back, skinny and short, but definitely there and intending to bloom soon.

I'll let it open its one blossom, and then out it comes again, as much of it as I can remove.