Cudrania cochinchinensis 25/4 Restock and repays the attention with

and repays the attention with months of scent

Butterfly weed is the orange star of the summer meadow

exuberant growth

and the plant pairs beautifully with blueberries

Cudrania cochinchinensis 25/4 Restock and repays the attention withThis spiny, sprawling, half vining shrub carries glossy evergreen leaves and a tangle of thorns. Sometimes classified as a Maclura and related to the native Osage orange, cockspur thorn ranges widely across eastern Asia and south to Australia, yet stays rare and little known in North America, familiar mostly to a few bonsai enthusiasts. Woodlanders first met this plant years ago at Pinewood Estate, a winter home built in the 1930s in the exclusive