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The garden’s been a dull gray since November, but these camellias are the one thing I actually look forward to checking each morning. They’ve held their petals through two frosts already, and the deep color just keeps the whole yard from feeling dead.

Blooms have been peeling open one by one since December, and the deep pink petals hold up beautifully through frost and rain. It’s exactly the quiet burst of color my garden needed when everything else is bare.

The first camellia opened this week and it’s the only thing in my garden that looks alive. Blooms are holding up nicely through the frost, and the deep pink color is exactly the kind of devotion the flower lore talks about.