Erred, but now it’s good

Several years ago, I greviously erred in planting a long searched for treasure, an uncommon red-flowered ‘Akebono’ paperbush (Edgeworthia papyrifera ‘Akebono’), in the worst possible circumstance. With no ideal location readily apparent, I planted the young shrub in the shade and root zone of a large ‘Mary Nell’ holly, but also with periodic flooding from…