The colorful blooms spark joy during the dreariest time of year.
Theres not much I look forward to in the month of January.
But the way he tells it, his camellia-growing career nearly ended before it started.
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He apologized for the fence-building noiseand then realized her eyes were fixed only on the shrub.
And she said, I hope you didnt too.
Thats a Drama Girl that I helped so-and-so plant 20 years ago.
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I asked her what that was, and she told me it was a camellia.
That was where my education began.
She smiled like I’d won an Olympic gold medal when my first graft took, he says.
She was happier than I was.
As for that first shrub he nearly obliterated?
Thats now his favorite camellia variety.
Just to look at them, you cant beat a Drama Girl, he says.
They make so many flowers they look like theyre going to break the bush theyre on.
