The plant was thought to have originated from a seedling selected by landscape gardener Neil Breslin of Camberwell, Victoria.
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The castle figures in the novel The Czar's Spy, by William Le Queux, where it is a terrifying prison held by the Russians who occupy Finland.
Timotheus Eberhard von Bock (1787-1836), about whom Jaan Kross has written one of his most well-known novels, The Czar's Madman, lived at Võisiku manor.