64+ Sweet Box Sarcococca Ruscifolia

Sarcococca ruscifolia grows very easily in the pacific nw and is a great shade plant for our cool moist climate. Drought tolerant once it s established in your soil fragrant mountain is an easy to grow low spreading shrub that amps up the appeal of your dull shady spots.

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Sweet box sarcococca ruscifolia!!!

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. Sarcococca ruscifolia however produces red fruit while that of sarcococca confusa is black. Other common names fragrant sweet box family buxaceae 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. 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. Sweetly scented sarcococca confusa sweet box is a terrific winter flowering evergreen shrub rich of many qualities. Quite similar to the species sarcococca ruscifolia and generally sold as such. Sweet smelling flowers are enough to make us love a plant forever but sarcococca keeps on giving.

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. Design ideasfragrance makes this an important shrub around windows doors and outdoor living areas. This rhizomatous species is known mainly for the following two outstanding variants both of which bear glossy blue black fruit. The plants get their common name because they are members of the boxwood buxus spp family.

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