Ruscus aculeatus Christmas Berry PP 16680 Calydorea It needs virtually no maintenance

It needs virtually no maintenance if planted with the proper initial spacing

Here's to McAloe's

beginning in mid-June

you will probably never see flowers

followed by an attractive stalk of red berries

Ruscus aculeatus Christmas Berry PP 16680 Calydorea It needs virtually no maintenanceThis unique dwarf selection of the easy to grow evergreen butcher's broom is similar to a clone the late Elizabeth Lawrence grew in her garden. However, this form originated as a seedling selection by Gys Petrus de Jong of Dublin, Ireland, although Gys got some really bad advice about the economic return from patenting a ruscus. The spiny, dark green cladodes (fake leaves) are compacted nearly on top of each other along the dark green stems.