Sarcococca Plante
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Sweet smelling flowers are enough to make us love a plant forever but sarcococca keeps on giving.
Sarcococca plante. It s extremely tolerant of shade and is therefore perfect for growing in a woodland border or shady corner where you can enjoy its heady fragrance throughout winter. However its best claim to fame are its tiny winter blooming flowers that provide an incredible thick delightful vanilla like fragrance. Sarcococca is one of those plants that you plant and forget about until the lovely sweet scent hits you full on in late winter. A great choice for shaded areas between buildings or where influence of large old shade or street trees limit plant choices to shade tolerant species.
You can enjoy winter colour and fragrance in your garden with this ever popular easy to grow shrub sarcococca. The flowers are followed by black berries which stay on the plant for a long time. Sarcococca sweet box or christmas box is a genus of 11 species of flowering plants in the box family buxaceae native to eastern and southeastern asia and the himalayas. The flowers of sarcococca confusa might be inconspicuous and hide beneath the leathery foliage but you won t miss their powerful honey like fragrance.
Its tiny very fragrant white flowers appear in winter when little else is in flower. Sarcococca is a genus of 20 small slow growing shrubby species from southeast asia and the himalayas that are closely related to boxwood. A useful evergreen winter shrub that forms a dense thicket of glossy leaves. The major attraction of sarcococca is the sweetly fragrant flowers in winter when little else is flowering.
Confusa is a bushy evergreen shrub to 2m with glossy deep green wavy ovate leaves 3 5cm in length and. Sarcococca also known by many as sweet box is a wonderful smaller evergreen shrub with glossy green attractive foliage. Sarcococca confusa other common names sweet box family buxaceae genus sarcococca are compact sometimes suckering evergreen shrubs with simple leathery leaves and tiny fragrant. Announcing their presence with their incredible sweet vanilla fragrance tiny ivory white flowers appear in late winter to early spring somewhat hidden among the dense foliage of glossy slightly rippled dark green leaves.
The leaves are borne alternately 3 12 cm long and 1 4 cm broad. Deep green foliage is an exceptional background for artistic elements or intensely colored perennials. Christmas box sarcococca confusa is a dense winter flowering evergreen shrub bearing sweetly scented pure white blooms in contrast with dark green leaves. Sweetly scented sarcococca confusa sweet box is a terrific winter flowering evergreen shrub rich of many qualities.