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18/5/2018

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and in every garden, you do from time to time lose some.

It's just a pity when it is a star plant and four weeks to Open Day!

But viburnum 'Davidii' a very handsome shrub, despite being weighed to the ground by snow more than once this winter is looking splendid by the front door. The flowers are followed by berries of an amazing blue and the evergreen leaves are beautifully veined. Unlike viburnum tinus which smells so awful I wouldn't grow it, this has no scent.

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Viburnum plicatum 'Mariesii' I love for it's horizontal form. This was a beautiful specimen, so perfect that we spent some time clearing away other things from around it to show off it's form and 'honour it with it's own space'.

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I had hoped that it was just late coming into leaf but since these few leaves appeared on a low branch it became clear the rest was dead. It took many years to grow to this size and leaves a big gap.

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But I have an idea....
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Lotta
19/5/2018 12:29:22 am

Oh what a shame Freda. It is a beautiful shape even without leaves... I have an idea too, but it sounds like you may have it covered!

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Freda
19/5/2018 12:31:31 am

Oh do tell me your idea Lotta!

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Lotta
19/5/2018 12:44:24 am

Well I was thinking about embracing 'what is'... leaving it there for Open Gardens to exemplify that, but making leaves for visitors to write messages/wishes on and hang from those wonderfully shaped branches. It could be a feature in a different way... a sort of visitors book. And it's a way for people to appreciate its form in another way, and a reminder that no matter how much work we put into a garden, nature always has the last word!

Lotta
19/5/2018 06:56:45 am

And now I've read it back my idea sounds silly. Tired brain... was still planting veg at 10.30pm last night!

Freda
19/5/2018 01:53:13 pm

No, not silly Lotta but not practical as reaching the shrub would mean stepping over quite a few plants and I might end up with more dead ones! Not sure yet whether mine will work either!

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cath
22/5/2018 08:55:07 am

Thinking about this for days now... I can see how losing this intricate form in your garden would be a pity. Not being a gardener or very plant-wise I have no idea if it would be possible to promote the viburnum to being a host, sort of an alternative wigwam for sweet peas or another flowering climber?

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