Prunus incisa 'Kojo no mai' Lynn Lowrey From the Edo period

From the Edo period

drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found

through the season

or in a loose native drift

Prunus incisa 'Kojo no mai' Lynn Lowrey From the Edo period'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