Aucuba japonica 'Shilpot' 26/3 Restock the northern maidenhair makes a

the northern maidenhair makes a refined companion for hostas

Woodlanders originally propagated cuttings of this uncommon species from a specimen then in cultivation at the famous Tom Dodd Nurseries in Semmes

and the season's hummingbirds

Hillier's great manual calls the Kentucky coffeetree one of the most handsome of all hardy trees

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Aucuba japonica 'Shilpot' 26/3 Restock the northern maidenhair makes aThere is a book about Aucuba japonica called A Virgin for Eighty Years, which sounds like a romance novel and is, instead, one of the strangest stories in horticulture. The species arrived in England in 1783 as a single female plant. Aucuba is dioecious, male and female flowers on separate plants, so for the next eighty years every aucuba in English gardens was a clone of that one original female. Gardeners knew the plant was meant to bear bright red