Aucuba japonica 'Shilpot' 26/3 Restock Hillier's great manual calls the

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

Known as Mexican tarragon

and the season's hummingbirds

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Aucuba japonica 'Shilpot' 26/3 Restock Hillier's great manual calls theThere 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