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It was he who created four themed “rooms” in the garden, planted, variously, with narcissus, Japanese cherry trees, deutzia, hybrid lilacs and honeysuckle.

Most plants are herbaceous, though some are woody — including hydrangeas, honeysuckles, deutzias and the rose.

In the garden with light shade, I have also used deutzias, hellebores, epimediums and small hydrangeas to crowd around the flagging daffodils.

The lime greens of certain hostas, deutzias and Japanese maples add accents of vitality so emblematic of April, a month that now feels distant in the sullen lushness of summer.

A big deutzia bush looms between his window and the road, while at my window only the tips of a waxberry bush obscure the view, and there is a door beside me.