Most fragrant SARCOCOCCA (sweetbox/Christmas Box)

I made a list a while back as regards strong sweet smelling plants/shrubs (some are not 100% hardy, and must be grown in a conservatory in the UK) .... this is info I found on the internet from a gardening forum in the USA, which discussed the stronger smelling shrubs and never really followed through with checking them:

Cestrum nocturnum
Banana Shrub (Michela figo)
Chimonanthus praecox (Wintersweet)
Lonicera japonica
Eleagnus
Michelia ALBA
Sweet olive
Osmanthus fragrans
Mock Orange
Daphne odora
Edgeworhia chrysantha
Burgmansia candida 'Ecuador Pink'
Burgmansia candida x 'Double White'
pittosporum (tobira)

 

one of my favourite plants! .... I always include these in all gardens .... won the international perenial plant of the year in 2009

http://www.creekhillnursery.com/images/2009_Hakonechloa_Aureola.pdf

grows well in full sun aswell, but water in the dry summer once a week

 

I had a close look at the spiders web and I like it lots .... some guys on another forum prefer the variegated fatsia and say the spiders web looks 'sickly' .... I most prob will get a spiders web for the current job as I have seen them selling for a tenner ... the garden already has a plain green one that I bought from B&Q for a few pounds (was marked down from £18 to £6 if memory serves me right)

 

thanks! ... thats a definate and should be included in all exotic style gardens!

 

there are a few varieties including a plain yellow and a red one .... I prefer the macra which won the perennial plant of the year .... here is the red one

 

sarcococca confusa is the best scent, but they yellow very quickly if underfed so if it's poor ground chuck some long lasting feed in