Sarcococca Confusa Plant
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Christmas box sweet smelling flowers are enough to make us love a plant forever but sarcococca keeps on giving.
Sarcococca confusa plant. Recipient of the prestigious award of garden merit of the royal horticultural society. White spring flowers. I grew them at our place near lynnwood wa. It got no sunshine no rain.
A beautiful shrub for shady areas. Log in sign up log in sign up. Sarcococca sweetbox shrubs have dwarf sized appeal perennial foliage and surprisingly sweet smelling tiny flowers. The flowers are followed by black berries which stay on the plant for a long time.
Learn more about monrovia plants and best practices for best possible plant performance. The flowers of sarcococca confusa might be inconspicuous and hide beneath the leathery foliage but you won t miss their powerful honey like fragrance. Sarcococca is a genus of 20 small slow growing shrubby species from southeast asia and the himalayas that are closely related to boxwood. It s dark glossy evergreen leaves bird attracting berries comfort in shady gardens even in dry shade and pest free nature clinch the deal.
Sarcococca confusa confused sweet box. Confusa is a bushy evergreen shrub to 2m with glossy deep green wavy ovate leaves 3 5cm in length and. Thrives in part to full shade in moderately fertile. Sarcococca x confusa is one of the toughest most durable evergreen perennials for adverse woodland garden conditions.
Grows at a moderate rate up to 3 5 ft. Sarcococca confusa other common names sweet box family buxaceae genus sarcococca are compact sometimes suckering evergreen shrubs with simple leathery leaves and tiny fragrant. How to grow sarcococcaconfusa plant size 1 5m height 2m spread aspect north facing east facing south facing west facing. Planted one on the north side of our house near the front door.
You can stand several feet away and smell the delightful scent of just one sweetbox but when you put them in a mass the plants can perfume the entire landscape for weeks. The major attraction of sarcococca is the sweetly fragrant flowers in winter when little else is flowering. Sarcococca confusa is a wonderful plant. I started new plants from cuttings and seed from their berries.
Fragrant sweet box sarcococca ruscifolia. This boxwood cousin has eve. Learn more about monrovia plants and best practices for best possible plant performance.