Prunus incisa 'Kojo no mai' Lynn Lowrey drifts on the air rather

drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found

an eighteenth-century physician of colonial Virginia

setting into a clear

all of it heavily scented

From the Edo period

Prunus incisa 'Kojo no mai' Lynn Lowrey drifts on the air rather'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