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-shaped golden leaves. A deciduous tree, its buds start opening as weather warms up during April, and by early May the spreading canopy of branches is clad with fully open foliage. Looking out at it today - sitting proudly in its large pot on my patio close

in height its spreading branches cast quite a shadow over the bed below. Being a deciduous tree its full canopy doesn't really develop until later in May, so many early flowering plants have time to bloom before the shade takes over.My star performer over

At last, the warm weather has kick-started the season, and blossom is finally appearing.What a difference a year makes. Checking back at my diary, in 2012 the first 'Victoria' plum blossom opened on 28 March. One year on and the same plum tree only