HOME AGAIN

We are now home again from our holiday and settling back into Torquay. The weather has been quite cold with maximums in the low teens and down to 3 degrees centigrade overnight recently.

However, there has been some very bright sunshine at times. The Front Beach looked particularly cheery on Friday, even though the the air was cold. Of course what we really need is more rain. It has been disturbingly dry in the south of Australia for the last eighteen months or more.

In spite of the dryness, the three small Camellias I have in pots are doing well.

The Kamo-honnami has a number of flower buds this year. But the bush is still very small and I have to be rather strategic about cutting flowers. I was very interested to come across an article about this flower on the website of the International Camellia Register and recommend it to you.

In the garden in Melbourne is a large bush of a much more showy Camellia, whose name I do not know. As I was running short of time to write this post I decided to make a simple one-material ikebana with this Camellia.

I have arranged two, partially stripped, leafy stems with a single cup-shaped flower that had only just opened. The irregular disk-shaped vase is relatively flat, front to back. Fortunately I was able to choose stems that lent themselves to this lateral placement.

Greetings from Christopher  
 22nd June 2025