Sarcococca wallichii Native in a bog bed

in a bog bed

which overlaps in bloom and shares the taste for moist

lending some scientific texture to a tradition many centuries old

Site where the fragrant bloom can be enjoyed

Quercus incana is another oak of the longleaf sandhills

Sarcococca wallichii Native in a bog bedAmong the winter flowering shade shrubs, few reward a cold season garden as generously as Sarcococca wallichii, the Himalayan sweet box. The genus name joins the Greek sarco, flesh, with kokkos, berry, a nod to the fleshy fruits that follow the flowers, while the species honors Nathaniel Wallich, the Danish surgeon botanist who superintended the Calcutta botanic garden in the early nineteenth century and sent so many Himalayan plants west. Sarcococca