Sarcococca orientalis Open House The bark is smooth and

The bark is smooth and gray

since the rose-red flowers want a calm setting rather than competition

well-mannered habit as the species but trades rosy pink for clusters of pure

As with all aucubas

Like others in the genus

Sarcococca orientalis Open House The bark is smooth andSarcococca orientalis is a fragrant, uncommon sweet box from China, a compact evergreen of the boxwood family grown, like its kin, for a winter perfume far larger than the flowers that carry it. In late winter small white flowers open along the stems, modest to the eye but richly and sweetly scented, filling a still, mild day with fragrance and giving the shade garden a lift when little else stirs. The plant builds a neat, rounded mound of glossy,