Why , oh why do n’t more gardener plant variegate pachysandra ( Pachysandra terminalis‘Variegata ’ , USDA Hardiness geographical zone 4 - 8) ? It ’s so much more interesting than the plain Jane unvariegated sort . Is it because you may never find it in nurseries , and no one wants to mail - order groundcovers ? Are we just stuck in an all - green oestrus ? Who make out . Do the subtlety gardening human race a favor and bulge out ask for this awesome alternative . Here it ’s combined with a clerodendron ( Clerodendron trichotomum , Zones 7 - 9 ) atTower Hill Botanic Gardenin Boyleston , Massachusetts . Tomorrow I ’ll feature the aboriginal alternative …
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