Description
Grown for its virtually evergreen habit and its flared, pure white bell-flowers with a scent varying said to be like citrus or nutmeg which is very evident in spring, if the air is warm and still.
This was one of the first species to come into cultivation in the west as China started to open up in the 1980s. It was introduced and distributed then as Polygonatum cyrtonema, which it is not, thoughj it is a little like an evergreen Polygonatum in some respects It has persisted well and makes tight, strongly perennial, evergreen clumps of stems reaching no more than 30 cm tall here. In May these bear the pure white, hanging blossoms on the newly developing stems.
Strongly perennial, increases well but not boisterously in almost any soil or site, but most at home in a leafy enriched loam soil in half shade.
