Some evergreen container plants offer more than year-round foliage, adding fragrance, seasonal interest, and flexibility to ...

What: Few shrubs reach their peak in the middle of winter, but that is precisely when Sarcococca ruscifolia, commonly called fragrant sweetbox, begins to shine. Tiny white flowers hidden amongst its ...

WHY PLANT IT: All sarcococca, also known as sweet box, are noted for their superb winter fragrance, which floats on the breeze in January and February. This intoxicating sweet vanilla perfume comes ...

For many gardeners, winter can be a bit of a dreary season, when the days are short and it's often too cold to build up much enthusiasm to get out into the yard. At this time of the year, it's far ...

Sweet box is a low-growing shrub that is especially welcome near the house in winter. It provides evergreen color and lovely white blooms with a sweet scent in late January and early February. (Marci ...

A shrub whose name says it all is the fragrant sweet box (Sarcococca ruscifolia). This shade-loving shrub has ovate, leathery, shiny dark-green leaves that are about 2½ inches long. Fragrant sweet box ...

Q: On one of your shows you talked about the sweetbox. I planted one about two years ago and I loved it because it smelled so good. It was in bloom when I bought it and it has not bloomed since. What ...

Winter, with its plunging temperatures and brief windows of daylight, can seem a world away from the warm and sunny gardening season. However, thanks to some particularly hardy plants, even the depths ...

Summers are getting hotter in much of the U.S., including our local environment. One way to counteract this change in climate is by planting trees to provide more shade in the summer months. But ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/taxon.63.4.925 Copy URL Abstract “Sarcococca longipetiolata” was not validly published by Cheng (1979) because two gatherings were ...

Summers are getting hotter in much of the U.S., including our local environment. One way to counteract this change in climate is by planting trees to provide more shade in the summer months. But ...