MATURE SACOCOCCA HUMILIS SWEET BOX SHRUB

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How to grow Sarcococca humilis
Position: Partial, moderate or dense shade.
Foliage: Evergreen shrub, leaves stay on the shrub all year.
Soil and site: Any well drained soil, dry shade, damp shade.

Flowering time: Late Winter – Early Spring

Growth rate: slow
Ultimate height and spread 150cm high x 100cm wide.

Hardiness: Fully hardy.
Aftercare: Water regularly after planting and for the first season. Trim or prune if required after flowering, mulch in Spring

Delivery leadtimes update – April 2025

Spring is our busiest time of year and we are working through orders as fast as we can to get your plants delivered. To give you an accurate idea of when your order will arrive, these are the current leadtimes (delivery is 1-2 days after despatch):

– Orders containing only bare roots – despatch within 5 working days.

– Orders containing only root balls, or root balls and bare roots – despatch within 10 working days.

– All orders containing potted plants – despatch within 14 working days.

Delivery is free for most orders above our free delivery thresholds, these are displayed above our prices in the product listings and summarized below. If you don’t need that many plants it’s not a problem, you can choose to pay our delivery charge and only order what you need.

Delivery is convenient – no signature is required so you don’t need to wait in, we will leave your parcel in the safe place that you nominate.

Delivery is fast – because we pick orders daily from our own growing beds your plants only travel the small hop to our packing shed before being sent to you, they are usually delivered within 5-7 working days.

Delivery is reliable – we have been selling and delivering Hedging Plants to our customers nationwide since 1992. We have a lot of experience in packing them safely and only use tried and tested delivery partners.

Smaller Plants (Parcel Delivery)

Location	Order Value	Price
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Up to £90	£15.00
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Over £90	Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of Wight	All orders	£24.00

Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)

Location	Order Value	Price
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Up to £420	£72.00
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Over £420	Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of Wight	All orders	£72.00

Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)

Location	Order Value	Price
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Under £1800	Please call us
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Over £1800	Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of Wight	All orders	Not available

Exceptions to our delivery charges are Scottish Highland and Isle of Wight delivery areas where we need to charge a little extra to cover the cost of deliveries to these outlying areas. We don’t currently delivery to other offshore addresses including Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

Tall plants over 2.5 metres have to be delivered by our own specialised transport, our delivery area is limited to mainland England and Wales only.

Please note there is a minimum order value of £50 for orders containing smaller plants and £250 for orders containing heavier plants

Complete delivery information can be viewed on our Delivery Information page

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Sarcococca humilis (Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis) Sweet Box

The gorgeous shiney, deep green foliage of this evergreen shrub makes the perfect backdrop for highly scented tubular white flowers that will fill your garden with their sweet fragrance from December until March. When the flowers finally finish they are followed by persistent shiny blue-black berries.

Sarcococca humilis shrubs are perfect for shady borders or containers and their dense bushy growth makes them a good plant for hedging or as an edging to paths and paved areas, in particular as a Box replacement. They are easily maintained at a height up to 75cm with a light trim after flowering to keep them dense and bushy, they are a great source of structure, colour and fragrance during the Winter.

Sarcococca humilis is an easy, low maintenance shrub. They thrive in shade rather than the sun, either moderate or dense shade is fine. Once established they are very tough and drought tolerant although they do appreciate a generous mulch in spring. This is also one of the few shrubs that grows well in damp shade.

Step 1: Choose Your Root Type

Step 2: Choose Size and Quantity

Chosen Root Type: Potted

Potted Hedging

We deliver these plants to you in the pots they are grown in, because there is no root disturbance they can delivered and planted all year round with excellent results.

Sweet Box Sarcococca Humilis Potted Hedging 6/8in 15/20cm

in 2 litre pots
Plant(s) per metre: 3-5
Minimum order quantity: 1

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