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Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’, just readying itself for its first trick of the year, is not a plant to everyone’s taste. For one thing, it’s exceedingly popular. It’s also quite handsome, with it’s glossy deep green foliage and flush of bright red new leaves twice a year. And once a plant – particularly a shrubby one – proves itself to be resilient and at least moderately attractive, it tends to get sold in vast numbers to the landscaping trade, which seems to be the final word when it comes to being cast out from polite society. And so the poor thing is condemned to slink about with the likes of mahonia and Japanese spindle (Euonymus fortunei), spotted laurel (Aucuba japonica) and oleaster (Elaeagnus ebbingei); all fabulous in their own right, but in the company of whom it must suffer being referred to as a ‘car park plant’. Plant snobbery is a real thing, although – as I’m sure you’d agree – a pretty daft one.
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