Aucuba japonica var. borealis 25/6 Restock many-tepaled flowers

many-tepaled flowers

humid summers

and a well-grown plant earns a place beside a sunny door

long valued in folk medicine

Aucuba japonica var. borealis 25/6 Restock many-tepaled flowersAucuba japonica is one of the great problem solvers of the shade garden, a glossy broadleaf evergreen that thrives in the dry, difficult shade where few other shrubs will, and var. borealis is the toughest of the clan. Drawn from the cold northern reaches of the plant's Japanese range, this small leaved form was selected for hardiness, holding very shiny, dark green, leathery leaves through winters that would burn a common aucuba. The genus name is a