Aucuba

photo credit: CK Worley

Between our front and back yard we have Aucuba hedges that are at least 20 years old.  Here we have both non-variegated (non-striped) plants and variegated (striped) plants.  Aucubas are dioecious having separate male and female plants. The female plant will bear small clusters of red berries if a male plant is near by. These berries will hang in there from Fall until Spring. It will grow from 4 to 7 feet tall and some up to 10 feet tall, but you can find smaller ones.  It grows well in Zones 6-10 but some people in zone 5 have had good luck with them.

photo credit: CK Worley

They are drought tolerant but we water often from our well (we don’t soak them), fertilize with Holly Tone (which they LOVE) and prune the dieback after winter has past.
We lifted the plants up and over our fence which they seem to like and now smaller plants are growing to fill in underneath.  It serves as a wonderful privacy fence for us.

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