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A large evergreen shrub that I am very fond of. My best plants are cuttings from a plant in my mothers garden
where it is vigorous and floriferous. My garden is much shadier and eventually it becomes leggy
and needs to be pruned rather ruthlessly. It sulks for a bit, but bounces back after a year or so. Trees and Shrubs online nsays; "Native of S. Europe, mainly in the Mediterranean region, and of N. Africa, occurring in the more luxuriant type of macchia vegetation with bay laurel, myrtle, phillyrea, Rhamnus alaternus, etc., or as undergrowth in woodland. It has been cultivated in Britain since the 16th century. In southern gardens the laurustinus is one of the most useful of evergreen shrubs, forming rich masses of greenery and opening its flowers any time between November and April, according to the weather. It will thrive in moderate shade, but flowers more freely in full sun. The fruits, indigo-blue, ultimately black, are not frequently seen with us, though often enough for it to escape from gardens in some places. From all other cultivated hardy viburnums this is distinguished by its luxuriant masses of entire, evergreen leaves." |
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| 27th January 2008 | ||
