Sarcococca orientalis Open House they knit the soil and

they knit the soil and hold it

so common was the use of the aromatic leaves as a seasoning and a tea

and have not met with it anywhere else in the South since

That food value runs deep in the land's history

The bark is smooth and gray

Sarcococca orientalis Open House they knit the soil andSarcococca orientalis is a fragrant, uncommon sweet box from China, a compact evergreen of the boxwood family grown, like its kin, for a winter perfume far larger than the flowers that carry it. In late winter small white flowers open along the stems, modest to the eye but richly and sweetly scented, filling a still, mild day with fragrance and giving the shade garden a lift when little else stirs. The plant builds a neat, rounded mound of glossy,