Vicious little shrub!

COLLETIA CRUCIATA
Vicious little evergreen shrub from Patagonia with delicious almond scented flowers beloved by all self respecting butterflies with a healthy disregard for their own safety. The entire plant appears to be made up of little models of nose to tail Vulcan bombers. Or are they Concordes?

Lots of light and reasonably well drained soil and plant where you don’t want people to go. A botanical curiosity. Why would you grow it in your garden? Why do we grow it? Absolutely no idea. We always have and we always will. We can’t help ourselves.

Propagated by us from cuttings. Either originally from the Chelsea Physic Garden or Borde Hill in Sussex. Can’t remember.

Ouch!

Anget, it was perilously close to the pathway too!

Give that one a miss.

Definitely . . .

Maybe I should get one to plant where the cats always seem to go, plus the fox!!

Rose, is that darn Fox still visiting your garden?

Not a desirable plant! Actually, I hate wood pigeons and their mess.. I can always consider it, but, nothing deters pigeons.

I second that, Kate, the Wood Pigeons are pairing up now and seem to think my garden is their courting area, grrr!

Not as much Shirley , but now getting lots of cats! Lots of new people this year . all with cats!!

Rose, our son was plagued with cats visiting his garden a few years ago. He bought something that emits high frequency sound (cannot recall the name of it) and, lo and behold, no more cats . . . :o)

An interesting plant, good as a barrier for anything.

Yes indeed!