{"id":3643,"date":"2009-04-19T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/camellias\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T23:00:59","slug":"camellias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/3643","title":{"rendered":"Camellias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camellias have been in bloom in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past couple of months. The Filoli estate in Woodside, California has a large variety of camellias on its grounds. Even if there are no camellias blooming in your area, you can enjoy camellias\u00c2\u00a0vicariously by gazing at the photos here and fixing yourself a cup of tea &#8211; your choice of black tea, orange pekoe tea, oolong tea, green tea, or white tea\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; all made from the tea plant, <em>Camellia sinensis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Camellia japonica 'Covina'\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Covina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Covina.jpg\" alt=\"Camellia japonica 'Covina'\" width=\"467\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Camellia japonica<\/em> &#8216;Covina&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: <em>Camellia japonica<\/em> &#8216;Covina&#8217; (Woodside, San Mateo County, California). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 20 March 2009.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Camellia japonica 'Cara Mia'\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Cara-Mia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Cara-Mia.jpg\" alt=\"Camellia japonica 'Cara Mia'\" width=\"467\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Camellia japonica<\/em> &#8216;Cara Mia&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: <em>Camellia japonica<\/em> &#8216;Cara Mia&#8217; (Woodside, San Mateo County, California). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 20 March 2009.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Camellia japonica 'Margaret McCown'\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Margaret-McCown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Margaret-McCown.jpg\" alt=\"Camellia japonica 'Margaret McCown'\" width=\"468\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Camellia japonica<\/em> &#8216;Margaret McCown&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: <em>Camellia japonica<\/em> &#8216;Margaret McCown&#8217; (Woodside, San Mateo County, California). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 20 March 2009.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Camellia saluenensis x japonica 'Holland Orchid'\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Holland-Orchid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Camellia-Holland-Orchid.jpg\" alt=\"Camellia saluenensis x japonica 'Holland Orchid'\" width=\"314\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Camellia\u00c2\u00a0saluenensis x japonica<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0&#8216;Holland Orchid&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: <em>Camellia saluenensis x japonica<\/em> &#8216;Holland Orchid&#8217; (Woodside, San Mateo County, California). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 20 March 2009.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If you still don&#8217;t have your fill of camellias, you can revisit the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2306\" target=\"_self\">camellia photos I took last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camellias have been in bloom in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past couple of months. The Filoli estate in Woodside, California has a large variety of camellias on its grounds. Even if there are no camellias blooming in your area, you can enjoy camellias vicariously by fixing yourself a cup of tea &#8211; made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/3643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[184,185],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-filoli","tag-flowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-WL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19668,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/19668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}