Ruscus aculeatus 26/4 Restock the species reaches a graceful

the species reaches a graceful twenty-five to thirty-five feet with a rounded

well-drained ground of the wild home

and asks little once settled

In spring the branches hang with the classic fetterbush bells

For the gardener building a serious shade garden

Ruscus aculeatus 26/4 Restock the species reaches a gracefulRuscus 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