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Yellow Magnolia For Mum And Dad
Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Yellow Bird’
I bought my mother and father this yellow magnolia in the spring of 2014. My father died the following Christmas and with my mother’s permission, when she moved house six months later, I dug it up and I’ve had it in a pot ever since. Sadly, of course, Mum died the next Christmas.
Now it’s reached its final home. I’ve planted it in pride of place on the front lawn of my new home. We scattered Mum’s and Dad’s ashes at Tintern Abbey but I held on to the cardboard box and bags in which we carried them. So beneath the yellow magnolia is the shredded cardboard and few traces of remaining ashes.
It means a lot to me.
Peter Reynolds 