[Herunterladen] Sarcococca Nz

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Sarcococca nz. Sarcococca ruscifolia grows very easily in the pacific nw and is a great shade plant for our cool moist climate. In jan feb it produces tiny flowers which would go unnoticed except for their magnificent sweet penetrating fragrance. Will grow in sun or shade in well drained not too dry soil. A real gift to the garden. Fragrance in the winter is a real bonus to the garden and sarcococca confusa also known as sweet box for its fragrance and in the northern hemisphere christmas box as this is when it flowers in the uk and it is one of the best plants for winter fragrance it is from the buxaceae family. A low growing evergreen shrub reaching around 1 5. Compact and dense growth habit.

You can smell them from yards away. Grows well in dense shade. If you like daphne then you will love this shrub too. Sarcococca confusa christmas sweet fragrant box. Pickup is kaiapoi township. Small white flowers in winter followed by red berries. Sweet box or sarcococca from the greek sarx which means flesh and cocca meaning berry is also known as christmas box in the northern hemisphere because of its scented flowering season.

Sarcococca are woodland plants and happily grow in shade or semi shade are fine in dry shade and tolerate acid or alkaline soil. Genus sarcococca are compact sometimes suckering evergreen shrubs with simple leathery leaves and tiny fragrant creamy white flowers in winter or spring followed by red purple or black berries which may persist into the following winter. This is the largest and bushiest of the sweet boxes. Densely bushy shrub with deep green glossy leaves. Looks great as a hedge. Small cream flowers in winter are fragrant followed by black ornamental berries. This neat compact shrub has highly fragrant white flowers during winter followed by crismon red berries.

It can grow as high as 6ft but 4ft is a more usual height. Grows to around 1 metre tall but is slow growing. An attractive shrub with sweetly scented white flowers followed by black berries. Near the back door a bush of sarcococca confusa makes a fountain of green all year.