We bought our friend who used to live on Melrose Hill (in the house which was Jamie Lee Curtis's in her last Friday the Thirteenth appearance; Melrose Hill is like that) a nandina for a wedding gift; it's supposed to be the silent friend of married people. You tell your angry thoughts about your partner to the nandina, and it keeps your secrets and cools your wrath.

Julia, they're pretty plants, but cattle will break fences to get to them, so we don't have one.