Prunus incisa 'Kojo no mai' Lynn Lowrey at home in the peninsula's

at home in the peninsula's dry sandhills and sandy ridges where little else will grow

all of it heavily scented

A mature stand in full berry is one of the great sights of the winter garden

through the season

Prunus incisa 'Kojo no mai' Lynn Lowrey at home in the peninsula's'Kojo no mai' is a small cherry with a large personality, a dwarf Fuji cherry grown as much for the winter silhouette as for the spring flowers. The stiff, twiggy branches grow in sharp zig zags, crooking this way and that into a dense, architectural little bush, and in early spring, before the leaves, those bare zig zag stems line themselves with single flowers, pink in bud and opening to white and blush. The Japanese name translates, fittingly, as