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For decades this has followed me round the garden. I propagated a mass of them in the 1980's,
and finally I collected them all together again and planted them under the cherry trees in the garden.
It is a good background plant, and very tolerant! In 1991 the plant was given an Award of Merit by the RHS. The citation says: "To Skimmia x confusa 'Kew Green' as a hardy flowering shrub, subject to confirmation that no previous award has been given under another name..." And in "Matters Arising" for Floral Connittee B on 30th April 1991 they added: The plant which received an Award of Merit on 9 April 1991 as S. x confusa 'Kew Green' had received an Award of Merit as S. laureola in 1977. The most recent award was therefore rescinded." Trees and Shrubs online says: "A male form, which gained fame as a large planting at Kew by the Victoria Gate, misidentified as S. laureola. The origin of this clone is unrecorded, nor is anything known of the provenance of very similar plants at Borde Hill in Sussex. The plants are very handsome, with their large trusses of creamy fragrant flowers. They are somewhat dwarfer than the common male clone of S. japonica, from which they differ in their yellowish white pentamerous flowers, which do not open so widely as in that species. They stand full sun, but should also flower well in shade." |
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