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Gladys Robertson, Ella Rodd and Miss Dodd.

Labels: Great Aunt Ella

My Great Aunt Ella Camellia came from Ella's garden below, she was indeed a wonderful gardener who turned this unused tennis court into a wonderful place to visit, Ella, Rip, Meredith and Nick in the middle... a long time ago.
And look at this beautiful Pansy below!

Labels: Flowers, Great Aunt Ella

Unknowingly aware that this is a photo of my very favourite Camellia which started as a cutting from my Great Aunt Ella's Camellia many many years ago... we weren't quite sure of the name of this flower but the card says... Camellia Japonica Theaceae.  Thanks Emma 😍
 

Labels: Camellia, Great Aunt Ella

Great Aunt Ella isn't the name of this Camellia, we don't know what it's name is, we've named it after Ella because she grew this little beauty and it's where the original cutting came from... Long live Great Aunt Ella!

 Our Beautiful Great Aunt Ella with our Dad Rip, sister Meredith and brother Nick, this beautiful garden used to be a Tennis Court no longer used by Rip so turned into a garden!  

Labels: 6/2022PAD, Great Aunt Ella

Great Aunt Ella's camellia, last years flowers, too early just yet but there are lots of buds  😍
 

Labels: 5/2022PAD, Great Aunt Ella

Sooooo enjoying this beautiful season of Great Aunt Ella's Camellias, the prettiest I've ever seen.

Maybe I should have put this 'Beautiful' Photo up for today's PAD, it is my birthday after all 🎂

Labels: 7/2020, Great Aunt Ella

Labels: Garden, Great Aunt Ella

Labels: Great Aunt Ella

 My Great Aunt Ella in her beautiful garden on what was once a Tennis Court.
 Ella's home.

I remember looking forward to visiting our beautiful Aunt Ella, she was such a lovely person.  Ella was the older sister of my Grandfather Clements, the only girl in this side of the Rodd Family, but I did not like the cake she usually served us.  Ella didn't have much money to live on so she shared her small home with a friend.  The aforementioned cake she served was usually very old and had mould on it somewhere, I remember my brother Tim and I asking if we could go outside to enjoy our cake which we were allowed to do... very quickly we found one of Ella's garden spades, found a spare piece of garden and buried our cake 😊  I have no idea if she ever discovered our wicked ways!

Ella's garden was so beautiful and always in flower, this Camelia below is a cutting of one from her garden in Drummoyne.  It has struggled a bit here but last year it burst into the most beautiful flowers ever seen.
 Such wonderful memories of my beautiful Great Aunt Ella.

Labels: 4/2020, Flowers, Garden, Great Aunt Ella

This is the best season yet!  This Camellia came from a cutting taken my Rosie, planted at Newport, transplanted to Kincumber them moved to Turramurra in 2010!  Love my Great Aunt Ella.

Labels: Great Aunt Ella