DURING 2023, THIS COLUMN will be describing plants so beautiful or interesting that they deserve to be featured in the garden or landscape as specimens on their own, rather than mixed into a group. Let’s start off the series with a small tree that delivers a big impact.
The first time I saw × ‘Elizabeth’ was in a tidy landscaped property in Atherton, Calif. It stopped me and took my breath away. At that moment, at that spot, I had an epiphany. Great beauty will do that. An epiphany is described as a sudden understanding of the essential nature or meaning
