Aucuba japonica 'Shilpot' 26/3 Restock a nod to the nourishing

a nod to the nourishing mast the tree has always offered

and Béatrice Chassé

whose lifetime of work did more than anyone's to bring the genus into gardens

or full sun with mulch and steady water

Aucuba japonica 'Shilpot' 26/3 Restock a nod to the nourishingThere 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