It can be quite a challenge to find interesting flowering plants to include in the winter garden. I think one of the most overlooked is the Sarcococca. This plant has three distinct attributes: It not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What: Small, evergreen, shade-loving shrubs are hard to find in the Northwest, but this dwarf sweetbox fits the bill with its fragrant white flowers in early spring and blue-black berries in summer.

The gloomy weather might mean that there isn’t much to tempt us outside right now, but introducing some winter colour and fragrance into the garden with sweet-smelling winter-flowering shrubs can be a ...

BRING an extra sparkle to your garden this Christmas and New Year with winter-flowering plants that will brighten up the dark winter months. Highly-scented shrubs, glossy evergreen leaves and striking ...

I NEVER know exactly when it’s going to happen but every January it’s the same: I walk past my neighbour’s front garden and there’s a glorious honey smell that conjures shafts of golden sunlight in my ...