You say “ca-mee-lia”; I say “ca-mell-ia.”
The camellia, the Deep South’s winter belle, breathes freshly in the dormant garden. Its Asian invasion long forgotten, the camellia japonica is Sweet Home Alabama’s beloved state flower. No matter how you drawl it, this flower is a cold-weather keeper.
Speaking of pretty blooms and soon-to-be spring . . . now is the time to think of planting season. The New Southern Living Garden Book (2015)—updated for the first time in 10 years—awaits your eager fingertips. In an almost a half-century tradition, Mom’s thumbs wore down her own copy.

Goldenrod courtesy of Frank Mayfield, https://www.flickr.com/photos/gmayfield10/5306901503/
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