One in Adelphi, Maryland, one in Wildwood, Florida, one at the US National Arboretum with a grandfatherly interest in many more around the DC area (unless noted, pictures are taken the day of post)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Prunus mume 'Nishiki Ume', Flowering apricot.....we have a good collection of Umes at the Arboretum
Prunus ume is a wonderful wonderful plant with subtly but strongly fragrant flowers in January, or at least February on a manageably small tree. Depending on the way the temperatures run in any given season, you can get a bit of bloom as early as December, a sprinkling of sparse flowers off and on in the winter, and finish up in early spring with a tree full of flowers. All this without the diseases and pests that typically plague member of the genus Prunus. Every garden ought to have one.
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