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It finally flowered!

1/5/2014

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Five years ago we moved to our new house and after living in flats for years I went garden crazy. I dug borders everywhere and spent hundreds of pounds on plants to fill them. Fast forward a year and hours of weeding later and lots of my plants hadn't grown any bigger due to the terrible soil in our garden. I was a little disheartened but I plodded on regardless. Then I got pregnant with my first and the garden took a back seat for a while.

Last summer I was newly pregnant again and decided to have a bit of a sort out in the garden preempting my lack of energy towards the end of pregnancy and non existent time once the baby arrived. Realising the borders were rubbish for my plants I dug up some of the shrubs which weren't thriving and stuck them in pots full of nutrient rich fresh soil. One of the shrubs was a Camellia which in four years hadn't grown much more than an inch. I left the pots on my sunny patio and immediately forgot about them for the rest of my pregnancy.

Yesterday I was sitting eating lunch with the baby, looking out into the patio and I noticed something colourful on the Camellia. It took me a minute to comprehend what it was... A flower!

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In fact the whole plant had at least tripled in size over the past year! I immediately snapped this shocking quality iphone photo to capture the historic moment for fear of the 3yr old discovering and destroying the precious flower I had been waiting 5yrs to see.

This is an example of how critical the quality of the soil is to plants. Really my borders need digging out and feeding with proper soil as they are basically made up of clay. Now I've noticed my garden again I can't wait to find some time to get out there and pay it some attention.

Linking up to How Does Your Garden Grow? #HDYGG over at mammasaurus.co.uk

9 Comments
Amanda
1/5/2014 03:53:52 am

Such a beautiful flower, well worth the wait

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Mammasaurus link
1/5/2014 04:03:58 am

Ahhh now I love this post because it's the feeling of 'WOW!' and pride you get form seeing a plant you have bloom that is just great - and spurs people on to plant more and grow more. It's a really infectious time of the year right now and everyone seems to be waking up from a Winter garden hibernation now the sunshine is out. So happy for you! And thank you for sharing - this post made me grin x

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Gemma link
1/5/2014 06:40:24 am

Your Camelia is beautiful! I bought one for the garden this year but have no idea when it will flower, hopefully soon as I'm getting impatient :)

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Philippa Tyrer link
1/5/2014 06:42:36 am

What a great post! Here's to many more flowers in your garden!

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Claudia Guerreiro link
1/5/2014 07:53:42 am

yay!! congratulations. it is so wonderful when that happens

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Christina Maroc link
1/5/2014 08:28:45 am

How beautiful! My dad tried camelias, several died, and then he told the last one, you have one last chance or you are going on the compost heap. Flowered every year after :)

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Merlinda Little (@pixiedusk) link
1/5/2014 09:28:17 am

So big and red. I think its going to last long too. Hopefully your kid wont yank it out of the pot =P #HDYGG

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Charly Dove link
1/5/2014 03:08:50 pm

Oh my word this must have been so exciting! I hope you jumped off your chair with glee when you saw it. It's the best feeling when something appears for the first time - especially if it's taken a while!

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All about a Mummy
2/5/2014 03:57:45 am

Thank you for all your lovely comments. Looking forward to lots of gardening posts over the summer x

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