Product Description
Treat your winter garden to a fabulous new addition to our range of Christmas Box and be one of the first to be able to delight in its glorious perfume.
We all know winter can be a dull and dreary time in the garden, but fortunately it needn't be! The commonly named 'Christmas Box' or 'Sweet Box' is one of those plants that just lifts your spirits when you pass it by.
The glossy evergreen leaves of 'Winter Gem' produce glorious little flowers, resembling little fireworks, which emit the most sensational and sweet vanilla fragrance you can imagine, especially on sunny days. The white flowers emerge from pinkish-red buds and are followed by glossy, round red berries that ripen to black adding interest to your garden for even longer.
Easy to grow, in pots or borders, or sun or shade, plant it where you can enjoy those amazing winter scent every day - tough and tolerant of most conditions, 'Winter Gem' is especially valuable for shadier areas.
Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, ready for immediate planting out.
What Is Supplied
Item 510563 supplied as:
Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot ready for immediate planting out.
Item 510579 supplied as:
Supplied as an established plant in a 4.6L pot ready for immediate planting out.
Plant Information
Top Tips
An excellent plant for shade - use it to your full advantage!
Care Guide
- Easy to grow, plants are tolerant of most soil types, and should be kept well watered.
- Pruning is simple - just a case of cutting back shoots to maintain the plant's shape.
- After pruning apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted compost around the base of the plant.
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Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
100cm
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Good condition good value and excellent service.
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I would use it again to buy plants.
Review Submitted: 10/10/2023 - 11:14:20
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The plant arrived in good time. It looks very healthy and seems to have adapted to its new pot. The delivery girl knocked and handed the package to my husband with instructions to keep it upright and open as soon as possible
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Healthy plant, really pleased with it.
Review Submitted: 26/05/2023 - 13:03:14
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Good website, good communication and good planets which arrived as expected.
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Already said and not repeating myself.
Review Submitted: 20/04/2022 - 11:23:22
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I was very surprised to see that my salvia?s were so small in fact one of them looked dead the other two were just about living , my other plant was in good health and is now in my boarder.
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It was alive, green and healthy.
Review Submitted: 17/03/2022 - 21:29:59
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Very efficient service. Would definitely buy again and would recommend
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Excellent value. Good specimen.
Review Submitted: 10/07/2019 - 11:38:35
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The service was good.
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I have still to see how they come out.
Review Submitted: 06/06/2019 - 15:53:12