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The floral arrangements used “English foliage — holly, berried ivy and red skimmia,” and the tree was to be recycled to be viewed by holiday visitors to Windsor.

I want to remove them and replace them with new shrubs, possibly Japanese Skimmia.

Skimmia is a sort of old fashioned, low growing shrub, which has its appeal, but like the holly, you will need a male plant to go along with the female ones for berry set.

The pink tree fuchsia was transplanted from her mother’s garden, as were the red-berried skimmia that hug the southern fence line.

Various oaks descend within a few hundred feet of the sea-level, increasing in numbers at greater altitudes, and becoming very frequent at 4000 ft., at which elevation also appear Aucuba, Magnolia, cherries, Pyrus, maple, alder and birch, with many Araliaceae, Hollb�llea, Skimmia, Daphne, Myrsine, Symplocos and Rubus.