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An erratic variegated form of the Cherry Laurel. I was given a rooted cutting by Roger Grounds (a very long time ago) and planted it out in the
garden as part of the first layout. Eventually it was crowded out by overgrown conifers and as it slowly expired I kept meaning
to take cuttings but put it off for one year too long and thought it had gone when I dug out the dead stump.
I had forgotten that I had rooted cuttings from it many years previously and lined them out to 'grow on'.
I don't know what I was growing them on for, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. A year or two ago I was thrashing around in an overgrown corner, filled with grand ideas about new woodland plantings, when I was hit in the face by a long leafy shoot that I initially thought had been decorated by a seagull. In the event I was doubly delighted by the truth. It is in the way of things that gardens change. My new woodland planting needed a pathway through it, and Prunus laurocerasus 'Variegated' was in the way of things. I cut it back to a stump, intending to root a shoot when they grew. but unfortunately none of them were variegated. A plant that is very similar (if not the same) is being distributed as 'Variegatus', though I thought Roger Grounds had told me that his plant was a sport that he had discovered himself (but my memory is not very reliable). On the other had, I expect he distributed several plants and I certainly have. |
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