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This sweet box is believed to have come from western China where it probably originated as a natural hybrid of two species. Nowadays, you will not find it in the wild either because it is extinct or perhaps it never existed as a botanical species. Very interesting is a fact that there are no varieti ...

II - IV

0,5 - 1,5m

1 - 1,5m

semi-shade to shade

7 (down to -23°C)

for zone 5+6

for zone 7
Purple Stem is a Himalayan sweet box variety renowned for rich maroon stems in late winter and spring. They also may (but may not) turn purplish blue in autumn just like young stems of some blue hollies. It boasts highly glossy, evergreen, narrowly lance-shaped, dark green foliage. In autumn are for ...

I - III

0,5 - 1m

0,5 - 1m

semi-shade to shade

7 (down to -23°C)

for zone 5+6

for zone 7
Winter Gem is a Himalayan sweet box variety bred by Peter Moore from England. He succeeded in hybridizing a sweet box that will grow well in a pot which is something that sarcococca dislikes and will tolerate chalk (lime soil). Winter Gem boasts highly glossy, evergreen, narrowly lance-shaped, dark ...

I - III

0,5 - 1m

0,5 - 1m

full sun to shade

7 (down to -23°C)

for zone 5+6

for zone 7
FRAGRANT VALLEY™ is a Canadian contribution to the Himalayan sweet box family. It is a chance seedling selected by Gurjit Sidhu in their Sidhu & Sons Nursery in Mission, British Columbia, Canada in 2002. It was one of only two plants out of 2,000 seedlings that showed different characteristics ...

I - III

0,3 - 0,4m

0,5 - 1m

semi-shade to shade

5b (down to -27°C)

for zone 5+6

for zone 7
Red Star is a Dutch cultivar of Japanese skimmia, bred by Marcus J.C. van Eijk, who comes from the same nursery family as T.C. van Eijk, the nursery that also develops skimmias and boasts the sensational variegated cultivar Perosa from 2017. Red Star is protected by European patent No. 60495 from 20 ...

II - III

0,5 - 0,7m

0,5 - 1m

semi-shade to shade

5b (down to -27°C)

for zone 5+6

for zone 7