Sweet box, otherwise known as Christmas box, is a top hardy evergreen that will suit any garden.
WHEN I first went to work at Kew Gardens, long ago, I was very good at cutting the grass neatly but I didn’t know much about plants. So as I approached the potting shed on my first day I was stopped in my tracks by the delicious fragrance coming from...where?
One of the more experienced staff took me to the gate and lifted the leaves of an evergreen shrub – revealing the small, powerfully scented white flowers of Sarcococca confusa hidden by the foliage.
I took a piece home and decades later I still have plants taken from that cutting.
This story is from the January 14,2017 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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