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Across Russia with love
Country Life UK
|April 09, 2025
When addressing the Japanese Cherry Society in 1926, Ingram was shown a painting of a white-flowered blossom (Akatsuki, meaning 'daybreak' or 'dawn') that had become extinct there.
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He recognised it from a variety seen in Winchelsea, East Sussex, that he had named Tai Haku and promised to return it. After four years of failed attempts to send samples, success came when cuttings were wedged into potatoes and transported via the Trans-Siberian Railway
If it wasn't for Collingwood 'Cherry' Ingram, our spring displays might not be so glorious. Ingram's first passion, inherited from his parents (together with their wealth—his grandfather, Herbert Ingram, had founded
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