[Daisy]

I have had a Sarcococca humilis in the garden for six years.
Every year, it is loaded with buds and every year, the buds abort before they open.
Is it like camellias, wherein, if too short of water in late summer, when they are forming their buds, they abort just as they are about to open?
It is in the shade of an apricot tree, where everything else, seems very happy.
Daisy

[GillP]

I have had S humilis & S confusa for a number of years, in the shade of a fig tree and not given summer irrigation and - sorry - they flower and berry up wonderfully, among my favourite plants.  But, my summers in the Languedoc will be less harsh than in Crete and maybe that is the difference?