Sweet Box Christmas Box plants Eco-loop pots Scented flowers
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Sarcococca confusa.
- Sweet Box / Christmas Box
- Scented white flowers
- Winter Flowering
- Is a hardy bushy evergreen shrub 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.
- Best planted on mass and close to paths or walkways to appreciate the scent in Winter.
Cultivation: Grow in moderately fertile, moist but well-drained humus-rich soil in shade.
Full sun may be tolerated when planted in damp soil.
Also tolerant of atmospheric pollution, dry shade and neglect. Soil: Acid, Alkaline or Neutral. Moist but well-drained or well-drained. Chalk, Clay, Loam or Sand.
Aspect: All aspects. Sheltered.
Flowers: White in Winter.
Foliage: Dark Green. Fruits: Black in Summer.
Fragrance: Flower.
Suggested Plant Uses: Banks and Slopes, Cottage/Informal Garden, Ground Cover or Low Maintenance.
About our Eco-loop bag pots: These taupe colour pots are made from recycled material, are carbon black free, meaning they can be recycled, and are oxo-biodegradable. It is important to distinguish between oxo-biodegrable, and oxo-degradable, simply put oxo-biodegradable (which these are) will leave no micro-plastics, they fully biodegrade. We would like our customers after planting your plants bought from us to either: Re-use the pots in your garden, Recycle - they can go into your kerbside recycle bin.