A WONDERFUL plant to have in the garden at this very festive time of the year is the beautiful Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’. I have one I bought in memory of a very good friend, about six years ago. It is planted in a large container on the north facing wall at the back of my house. Camellias are evergreen shrubs with simple, ovate, glossy, leathery leaves and showy flowers with solitary or clustered flowers early in the year. This particular one is a lovely bushy, evergreen shrub with glossy dark green leaves which provide a sumptuous backdrop for the brilliant-red single flowers with prominent yellow stamens. Flowers are generally borne in late winter and early spring. That said, mine has flowered every year at the start of December, through until late January.