Aucuba japonica var borealis Honshu Nerium The foliage follows the flowers

The foliage follows the flowers in September and remains green until spring

For full hardiness

Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is a 2001 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction that we first met in the late 1990s on a visit to the late garden writer Pam Harper's coastal Virginia garden

Helleborus 'Peppermint Ice' is a seed-grown

jet-black scapes emerge that contrast well with the foliage

Aucuba japonica var borealis Honshu Nerium The foliage follows the flowersAucuba japonica var. borealis 'Honshu' is a female clone of aucuba that was originally collected in a very cold, high snowfall region of Honshu, Japan, and subsequently named and introduced by our friends at Camellia Forest. Aucuba japonica 'Honshu' makes a 4' tall x 6' wide compact clump in 10 years. Each clump of Aucuba japonica 'Honshu' is clothed with 6" long x 1. 5" wide, serrated, glossy, evergreen leaves. If you grow this near a male aucuba,