A description of alders which caught my eye.  It is winter here, and I am waiting for the first sign of seedlings. 

Every year, they throw out vigorous, purple-budded seedlings into the edges of the arable crops.

 

Source: Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: An unfinished history (London: Harper Press, 2009), p. 147

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