My Camellia is covered with buds, but they have been very slow to bloom. I love the plants glossy green leaves and the beautiful flowers that seem to stay for weeks once they bloom. Tomorrow is the day that we load the floats with all of the throws (beads, cups, doubloons, stuffed animals, etc.) My living room and kids' playroom are full of bags ready to be carried out to the car. Beads come in boxes, but you can't have boxes on the float. You saw the "pretty bags" http://www.pbase.com/etfitz/image/38767282 in an earlier photo, as you can see we have used every available strong sturdy bag in the house. Here are about 1/4 of the throws we have to haul and load tomorrow. That is a lot of beads you say, how about 22,000 of them