This flower can be seen outside my new study window. It flowers now - in February! It brings me a disproportionate amount of joy. The fact that I have exotic flowers in the midst of winter - here in Scotland, coupled with the ownership of a proper study again. My neighbour, who planted this beauty when it was just a seedling, tells me it originated from Loch Ossian, but he came across it in southern England, where he rescued it and brought it home again!