Ruscus aculeatus

Box Holly or Butchers Broom

Location

The West End of Terrace.

Description:

A bushy sub-shrub to 75cm, with glossy lance-shaped cladophylls 2.5cm in length, flowering in spring, bearing small pale green flowers, followed on female or hermaphrodite plants by glossy red berries

Site and Care:

Will grow in any aspect from full sun to full shade in any type of soil of any type, in sun or partial shade. Little or no maintenance is required other than to prune out dead wood. Propagation is by division in the spring or seed.