The beginning

you are going to have a lovely show..mine is covered with buds this year..the rain has been good for these..sadly,not for us..

This should be a picture when it flowers.
Mine are also full of buds, as you say Bloomer, the rain has been good for them.

Have you noticed the price of camellia's in the garden centre,they are very expensive, yet very common and easy to grow, mine must be worth thousands.

Talking about the price of camellias, visited garden centre today and they had on sale an half descent size camellia no bigger than 2 ft high,75.00 pounds. What a shock, I have cut back bigger stems and thrown them away. Same goes for any topiary plant wow what a price, is it me in my older age, or am I going to have to slab all my garden, or move into a flat.