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Janet · 24-05-2014, 09:16 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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On Sat, 24 May 2014 17:49:02 +0100, Janet wrote:

I've has several die young here (including a prostrate one which got
blown out of the ground) except for one, that defies all the above. I've
long since lost the name. It's in its 12th year from planting and hugely
robust, 9ft tall and wide, and covered in flower buds about to open.
It's freestanding, facing north and east over the bay, with the feeble
protection of a buddliea globosa at its back. The buddliea often gets
branches blown off by wind. Rainfall is around 90" a year. We're on a
clifftop and regularly subject to severe SW gales with salt; and when we
get the occasional cold NE wind it has absolutely no protection from
that. Yet it has never "burned".

Janet (Arran).

Oh envy! Envy! :-0

I'll root some more cuttings if you'd like some. I had loads of its
children in pots last year but they sold out when we opened the garden.

Janet