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Happy Birthday Kay

Thanks :-)

- what did the boys get you?

A rather nice mahonia, some Cylamen coum and Anemone blanda - nothing
exciting, but all helps to brighten up the far end of the garden which I
am developing as a winter garden to give a reason to head out there on
dull grey days. I've already got C hederifolium, just two C coum and
some early flowering crocus, Helleborus orientalis, Viburnum tinus
Cornus mas and Hamamelis mollis, as well as coloured bark from a birch
(can't remember offhand which, but it has a lovely rich pinky brown bark
where the white bark peels off), willow and dogwood

and no I don't grow P
mume

It's a lovely thing, aka Japanese Apricot, and it has the sort of
blossom that you see in Chinese paintings of plum blossom, scattered
deep pink flowers on bare twigs.


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Kay