| Washington Post: Northern, temperate places such as western Scotland stay alive in the winter: Light at 9, dark by 4, the days are full of fleeting images of flowering plants, the buttercup-yellow winter jasmine or the smoky-pink autumn-flowering cherry. Washington, by contrast, is supposed to be a place where a more brutal cold bullies plants into deep hibernation. But even here, the winters have grown more gentle. I returned from Scotland recently to a mid-Atlantic landscape of . . . winter jasmines ... |
