Sarcococca Shrub
Sweet smelling flowers are enough to make us love a plant forever but sarcococca keeps on giving.
Sarcococca shrub. Sarcococca is one of those plants that you plant and forget about until the lovely sweet scent hits you full on in late winter. However its best claim to fame are its tiny winter blooming flowers that provide an incredible thick delightful vanilla like fragrance. The major attraction of sarcococca is the sweetly fragrant flowers in winter when little else is flowering. Plant sarcococca in a place where you can enjoy it.
Sarcococca also known by many as sweet box is a wonderful smaller evergreen shrub with glossy green attractive foliage. Confusa is a bushy evergreen shrub to 2m with glossy deep green wavy ovate leaves 3 5cm in length and. Its tiny very fragrant white flowers appear in winter when little else is in flower. 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 is a genus of 20 small slow growing shrubby species from southeast asia and the himalayas that are closely related to boxwood. Scented flowers christmas box sarcococca confusa is a dense winter flowering evergreen shrub bearing sweetly scented pure white blooms in contrast with dark green leaves.