20+ Sarcococca Plante

The leaves are borne alternately 3 12 cm long and 1 4 cm broad.

Sarcococca plante. 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. The major attraction of sarcococca is the sweetly fragrant flowers in winter when little else is flowering. Deep green foliage is an exceptional background for artistic elements or intensely colored perennials. They are slow growing monoecious evergreen shrubs 1 2 m 3 7 ft tall. You can enjoy winter colour and fragrance in your garden with this ever popular easy to grow shrub sarcococca. Plant sarcococca in a place where you can enjoy it. Sweet smelling flowers are enough to make us love a plant forever but sarcococca keeps on giving.

Confusa is a bushy evergreen shrub to 2m with glossy deep green wavy ovate leaves 3 5cm in length and. Sweetly scented sarcococca confusa sweet box is a terrific winter flowering evergreen shrub rich of many qualities. Sarcococca also known by many as sweet box is a wonderful smaller evergreen shrub with glossy green attractive foliage. Its tiny very fragrant white flowers appear in winter when little else is in flower. 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. 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.

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. It s dark glossy evergreen leaves bird attracting berries comfort in shady gardens even in dry shade and pest free nature clinch the deal. Christmas box sarcococca confusa is a dense winter flowering evergreen shrub bearing sweetly scented pure white blooms in contrast with dark green leaves. Sarcococca is a genus of 20 small slow growing shrubby species from southeast asia and the himalayas that are closely related to boxwood. 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 confusa other common names sweet box family buxaceae genus sarcococca are compact sometimes suckering evergreen shrubs with simple leathery leaves and tiny fragrant.