I have a large one in my garden. The scent is intoxicating but I never se anything on itWhat tree/plant is it that you guys call Christmas Box?
Do you find anything that eats the rather beautiful berries Dani ?, ours is in flower and fruit but it appears to be given a wide berth by one and all.I have a large one in my garden. The scent is intoxicating but I never se anything on it
Sarcococca confusa
Do you find anything that eats the rather beautiful berries Dani ?, ours is in flower and fruit but it appears to be given a wide berth by one and all.
Dave
Supposedly eaten by birds for seed distribution- Ive yet to see it, guess the blackbirds and pigeons prefer the ivy round here.No nothing.
I always understood they were poisonous.
Much excitement with the leatherwood in full mid-summer flower.
Eucryphia is a wonderful bee tree and not seen often enough over here. I discovered its attraction to bees while visiting Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Eire (wonderful place, home to Sir Walter Raleigh, Adele Astaire and various Earls and Dukes); House & Garden magazine described the trees as a monumental group of Eucryphia x intermedia 'Rostrevor' but omitted to add a photo; the trees can be seen on the left here at 58 seconds; they were in flower when we visited and the noise was deafening.
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