In a Vase on Monday. Winter Fragrance.

There are so many plants to give interestingness and distinction to the winter garden and I am always seeking out new ones . I have several Koran on wintertime horticulture and they have chapters on wintertime color , interesting plant life structure , leaves , bark and berries . But none of my Christian Bible say much about the most exciting thing in the winter garden . One of the big pleasure of January is sniffing out the various delicious scents that plants habituate to entice early bees . The peak all have a finespun , fragile beauty , they do n’t use gaudy frock to entice pollinator , just delicious scents that pennant brush up the garden on the duck soup , intoxicating any lapse bees and me . So my vase today is dedicated entirely to fragrant heyday .

At last the queen of the winter garden is open up her dark pinkish bud to let on a sophisticated , honeyed perfume which stops visitant to my house in their cartroad as it maturate by my front door . Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill ’ is the very secure of her tribe .

Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill ’

Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill’

I have two winter flowering honeysuckles , and both sense fabulous . Lonicera x purpusii‘Winter Beauty ’ is a large bush and is full of delicious smelling cream flowers bear in pairs along the branch .

Lonicera x purpusii ‘ Winter beauty ’

genus Lonicera elisaeis quite rare and the bush is more beautiful with fragrant tubular pinkish flowers which are hairy .

Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill’

Lonicera elisae

One of my best-loved winter flowering shrubs isChimonanthus praecoxwhich has yellow pincer - like flush on bare branches . The centres of the bloom are maroon and the scent is recherche .

Chimonanthus praecox

Sarcococca is a wintertime unfolding bush with far too many ‘ c ’s ’ but I would n’t be without it . The walkway from the car commons at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire is draw with and the scent is amazing . I would like to replicate this estimation but they are expensive to buy . But stillSarccococca hookerianavar.digynadoes fool , so perhaps one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. I might have a hedge of it . The tufty flower smell of honey with a musky overtone which some hoi polloi dislike but I love it .

Sarccococca hookerianavar.digyna

Sarcococca confusa , bottom leave in the next photo has darker green leaves and ointment flowers and produces lots of dark berries which I have never make round to sow . I have several Witch Hazels in bloom now and I have used a dyad of twigs , one from adorable ‘ Vesna ’ and one from ‘ Orange Peel ’ which I always think sense mistily of orange peel , but this is perhaps the mogul of association but still it is very sweet . The scent of Witch Hazels is often indiscernible in the garden but when you bring it into the passion of the house it is adorable .

Daphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill’

Hamamelis x intermedia‘Vesna ’

Hamamelis x intermedia‘Orange Peel ’

I love the tattery , crazy sea windflower flower of Witch Hazels and I have lots of them , but not as many as the Witch Hazel queen , Cathy atRambling in the Garden .

Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter beauty’

The other three shrubs I used areMahonia media‘Winter Sun ’ with yellow peak that tone of Lily of the Valley , a sprig of a burnished blue Rosemary which blooms all through the winter and pinkViburnum x bodnantense‘Dawn ’ .

The blue flower of the AlgerianIris unguicularisunfolds in urine and is lightly odoriferous . Quite a few snowdrops are scented , the one I have used isGalanthus‘Ginn ’s Imperati ’ which has a sweet fragrance when you bring it indoors . This vase has been sit on my table for an hour or so now and the scent in my dining room is absolutely gorgeous .

In a Vase on Monday is hosted by Cathy atRambling in the Gardenand no matter what the season she never runs out of creative ways of inspiring us to bring some of the garden indoors to enjoy .

Lonicera elisae

36 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Winter Fragrance.

That is a great collecting of winter beauties .

What a image of fragrant heyday you have ! I wish I had more scent in my garden . It does n’t help that my sense of olfaction is n’t well - developed to start with but still I ca n’t lie down claim to many flowers live specifically for their fragrance . I had Sarcococca in my old garden and should hear it in this one as I can still think back being grabbed by that olfactory property while walk by the shrub . I clothe in a Daphne odora ( the only species I know of that has a chance of growing in my mood ) several months ago on a caprice and , somewhat to my astonishment , it has bud now , if not yet any heyday – whether it can pull through our summertime passion , even in partial shade , stay to be examine .

Mmmmmm – I can sense those delicious scents from here Chloris . There is a mini hedge of sarcococca ( not sure which kind ) in the grounds of our local Ithiel Town mansion . The aroma is utterly intoxicate . I have a handful of wintertime gardening Quran . I ’m sure one of them devote a good section to aroma but I ca n’t remember the title at the minute . Will recall here if it issue forth back to me .

Chimonanthus praecox

In a Vase on Monday. Winter Fragrance.