[75] Sarcococca Confusa Sweet Box Plant Kostenlos herunterladen
Planted one on the north side of our house near the front door.
[75] Sarcococca Confusa Sweet Box Plant . It s dark glossy evergreen leaves bird attracting berries comfort in shady gardens even in dry shade and pest free nature clinch the deal. How to propagate sweet box. A beautiful shrub for shady areas.
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The least amount of sun it gets the better is does. 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 got no sunshine no rain.
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. Harvest sow the berries. Christmas box sweet smelling flowers are enough to make us love a plant forever but sarcococca keeps on giving.
Sarcococca is a genus of 20 small slow growing shrubby species from southeast asia and the himalayas that are closely related to boxwood. Sweet box sarcococca confusa also known as christmas box is a much undervalued exquisitely scented small evergreen. I started new plants from cuttings and seed from their berries.
This is a quick step by step guide on how we propagate sweet box sarcococca confusa. This species a member of the buxaceae family is thought to be native to western china. The major attraction of sarcococca is the sweetly fragrant flowers in winter when little else is flowering.
Sarcococca confusa is a wonderful plant. We produce over a thousand of these each year by collecting and sowing the seed. Sweetly scented sarcococca confusa sweet box is a terrific winter flowering evergreen shrub rich of many qualities.
White spring flowers are small but very fragrant. Sarcococca sweetbox shrubs have dwarf sized appeal perennial foliage and surprisingly sweet smelling tiny flowers. I grew them at our place near lynnwood wa.
Blooms are followed by bright red ornamental fruit. Confusa is a bushy evergreen shrub to 2m with glossy deep green wavy ovate leaves 3 5cm in length and in winter inconspicuous very sweetly scented creamy white flowers followed by glossy black berries. Suitable for hedges up to 75cm it is an excellent substitute for box especially if box blight is a problem.