Aucuba japonica 'Golden King' Check with George Striking as a lawn specimen

Striking as a lawn specimen or at a woodland edge

Clethra tomentosa

According to Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

a streambank

where the long season of pink trumpets and their pollinators can be enjoyed

Aucuba japonica 'Golden King' Check with George Striking as a lawn specimenThere is a strange romance buried in this plant's history, and 'Golden King' sits on the male side of it. Aucuba japonica reached England in 1783 as a single female, the yellow flecked gold dust shrub that Victorians went on to plant by the thousand. Aucuba carry their sexes on separate plants, and for eighty years every aucuba in the country was a clone of that one female, waiting on the famous red berries that never came, because Japan had sealed