Comments on: Plants to Love: Fragrant Sweet Box (Sarcococca ruscifolia)

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:29:45 +0000

Gen,

I’m looking forward to following along with this series but I am disappointed the first shrub is not hardy for me. Here in southwestern CT (zone 6), our available sweetbox is S. hookeriana, the groundcover sweetbox. While I’ve never used it for a client, and don’t have any in my own garden, I may have to seek it out since it’s more fragile cousin, S. ruscifolia, definitely sounds interesting.
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By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:14:23 +0000

Aww, so glad to see my beloved Sarcococca getting some love!!

Jayme, oh my goodness, lovely planting companion ideas! And Stevie, I so agree on that fragrance. Rebecca, I am so glad to be your plant-love twin!! Your article on Francoa made my heart sing. Cindy, I think they’d go lovely with those gorgeous Fuchsias you carry in the nursery…

By: Cindy Graebner

Cindy Graebner — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:31:28 +0000

Well maybe I better get my face out of the roses and check this Sarococca out..cool word besides…sounds lovely. I think grace is one of the qualities I love most in a plant

By: rebecca sweet

rebecca sweet — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:25:41 +0000

Sarcococca. Just saying it makes me smile. You and I are SO similar – this, too, is right up there with my top 5 favorite plants!! I always try and plant it near shady doorways so folks can smell it in the late winter when they go in and out of their homes. I have one by my own front door and every year the mailman just loves smelling it – sometimes I even clip a branch of it for him to carry around in his truck that day….

By: Stevie

Stevie — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:57:27 +0000

I particularly love these in the winter when they are in bloom and nothing else is as fragrant.
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By: Jayme

Jayme — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:25:37 +0000

I love Sarcococca! What a simple, beautiful, fragrant evergreen plant. I just replaced my gargantuan viburnums in my foundation beds with Sarcococca. I love the size, glossy leaves, upright growth habit…everything. I have them planted with curly sedge, huckleberry, euphorbia, a huge tree peony and some other things.

I love the idea of this series. I’ll be back!