Sarcococca Ruscifolia Sweet Box Plant

Grown for handsome waxy dark green leaves and tiny powerfully fragrant white blossoms that come in late winter or early spring hidden in the foliage. What a simple beautiful fragrant evergreen plant.

Future Plants By Randy Stewart Sarcococca Sweet Box

Sarcococca ruscifolia sweet box plant

I have them planted with curly sedge huckleberry euphorbia a huge tree peony and some other things. Evergreen foliage is also ideal for covering up footings vents utilities and other unsightly spots around foundation planting. Deep green foliage is an exceptional background for artistic elements or intensely colored perennials.

Ruscifolia is a small slow growing evergreen shrub with glossy oval leaves and small fragrant creamy white flowers in winter followed by dark red berries plant range c china. The flowers may go unnoticed as they are rather small and hidden amongst dark glossy leaves but their scent will grab you. I love the idea of this.

Native to the himalayas china. I love the size glossy leaves upright growth habit everything. Sarcococca ruscifolia commonly called fragrant sweetbox or fragrant sarcococca is a dense low growing sometimes suckering broadleaf evergreen shrub with a compact habit that typically grows to 3 4 tall and as wide.

I just replaced my gargantuan viburnums in my foundation beds with sarcococca. It features a ovate sharp pointed somewhat leathery glossy deep green evergreen leaves to 2 1 2 long b fragrant unisexual apetalous creamy white flowers in tassel like axillary racemes females with 3 stigmas located below males with 4 6 stamens with early. Small berrylike fruit follows the flowers.

Useful in shaded areasunder overhangs in entryways beneath low branching evergreen trees. Design ideasfragrance makes this an important shrub around windows doors and outdoor living areas. Sweet box one of the first flowers of the year is sweet box sarcococca.

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