The title may be misleading, there's more than one individual but only one type of flower.
From spherical buds, the blooms begin to open pink, shifting quickly to pinky white.
Calycanthus chinensis was crossed with our native Calycanthus floridus (Carolina Allspice, Eastern Sweetshrub) to create Calycanthus × raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine.'
An interesting article about Calycanthus by Dan Hinkley can be found here.
The stems are a bit floppy but with a little encouragement, they cooperated.
A few leaves from the same shrub fill in the back while some native Bleeding Heart foliage is in the middle and sides. Notice those cute round buds.
After that, there were still more blooms so they got floated in a cobalt bowl.
Interestingly, the floated buds opened the next day.
The cobalt bowl got placed inside a brass-looking thingy that came from Watson's after holiday deeply discounted table. The original picture showed the bottom but also a nice family of dust bunnies on the floor so that part was cropped out. (Much easier than sweeping, vacuuming, or dusting, right?
