Ruscus aculeatus 26/4 Restock mild day with fragrance and

mild day with fragrance and giving the shade garden a lift when little else stirs

We grow Oglethorpe oak because someone must

and asks little once settled

In spring the branches hang with the classic fetterbush bells

or beside a path

Ruscus aculeatus 26/4 Restock mild day with fragrance andRuscus aculeatus, Butcher's Broom, is a low evergreen shrub of the asparagus family, native to the woodlands of southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, and reaching north into the milder parts of the British Isles. What look like glossy, spine tipped leaves are not leaves at all but flattened stems called cladodes, which take over the work of photosynthesis while the true leaves are reduced to tiny scales. The generic name comes from