OT: South Carolina Winter Flower pics

[jmcquown]

This is what's blooming in the corner of my driveway.

https://i.postimg.cc/Y0CqHr8h/darkpink.jpg

Budding:

https://i.postimg.cc/6QHBhJBK/budding.jpg

Some really large buds that have yet to bloom but are about to.

https://i.postimg.cc/PxpnzC6b/bigbud.jpg

January, 2021.

I do not know if this is some variety of camelia. It's a tall bush with
broad bright shiny green leaves. It's very pretty and blooms (like the
lower shrub type azaleas) twice a year.

As the years go by these blooms seem to be getting darker. They're very
big.

Jill

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

Pretty!! And I do believe those are camellia buds and blooms.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Very nice. I like the touch of yellow in them.

[Leo]

On 2021 Jan 16, , Ed Pawlowski wrote
(in article <eSIMH.23021$Yt4....@fx38.iad>):

> On 1/16/2021 12:45 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > I do not know if this is some variety of camelia. It's a tall bush with
> > broad bright shiny green leaves. It's very pretty and blooms (like the
> > lower shrub type azaleas) twice a year.

> Very nice. I like the touch of yellow in them.

Red touching black, safe for Jack. Red touching yellow, kill a fellow, so
Jill should be careful!
I don´t think I´ve ever seen a camelia. I grew an azalea once that lasted
two years before a cold winter killed it.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 6:14:30 PM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
> On 2021 Jan 16, , Ed Pawlowski wrote
> (in article <eSIMH.23021$Yt4....@fx38.iad>):
> > On 1/16/2021 12:45 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > > I do not know if this is some variety of camelia. It's a tall bush with
> > > broad bright shiny green leaves. It's very pretty and blooms (like the
> > > lower shrub type azaleas) twice a year.
> > Very nice. I like the touch of yellow in them.
> Red touching black, safe for Jack. Red touching yellow, kill a fellow, so
> Jill should be careful!

Oh, no! Jill might have a coral snake bush growing in her yard!

Cindy Hamilton

[jmcquown]

On 1/18/2021 6:14 PM, Leo wrote:
> On 2021 Jan 16, , Ed Pawlowski wrote
> (in article <eSIMH.23021$Yt4....@fx38.iad>):
>
>> On 1/16/2021 12:45 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> I do not know if this is some variety of camelia. It's a tall bush with
>>> broad bright shiny green leaves. It's very pretty and blooms (like the
>>> lower shrub type azaleas) twice a year.
>> Very nice. I like the touch of yellow in them.
> Red touching black, safe for Jack. Red touching yellow, kill a fellow, so
> Jill should be careful!

It's flowers, not a coral snake. :)

> I don´t think I´ve ever seen a camelia. I grew an azalea once that lasted
> two years before a cold winter killed it.
>

In my pics you saw some camelia blooms and buds. It really doesn't get
cold enough to kill these or the azealas off. Even when we've had brief
snow (about 3 years ago) and lately the temps have been in the 30's at
night, these bushes bloom twice a year without prompting. Frost doesn't
kill them. Freezing rain (very rare) doesn't kill them. Hardy plants
and it's very nice to walk outside and see blooms like this in January. :)

Jill

[jmcquown]

LOL When I see what might be a Coral snake I don't stop to remember a
rhyme. A good rule of thumb if you see a snake is, don't mess with it.
Their mission isn't to bite humans.

There are lots of snakes where I live. In a particularly wet Spring
I'll see lots of black snakes. They just slither along going about
their business looking for food. They aren't venomous and although they
have fangs they aren't aggressive.

Don't want them in my house or my garage, of course. Last year a black
snake slithered into the garage when I opened it. I left the garage
door open so it could slither back out. It quickly figured out there
was no food there and left.

Jill