Winter smells

The flowers of most of these amazingly, deliciously smelly shrubs look rather insignificant, but in deepest winter they'll waft their fantastic scents around your garden and make you want to rush outdoors and sniff sniff sniff.

Daphne 'Jaqueline Postill'

Winter Honeysuckle (Lonicera Fragrantissima)

Witch hazel (Hamamelis Mollis)

(photo from my mum and dads garden last week)


Viburnum Bodnantense 'Dawn'





















Christmas Box (Sarcococca Confusa)

Unless you have the new scratch and sniff app for your iphone I'm afraid you'll have to track down the actual plants to smell what I'm talking about.

Plant love...the Katsura tree and more smells.

What's the best smell in the whole wide world?...
Go to Westonbirt Arboretum at this time of year and find this shrub:

It's the Katsura tree (Cercicdiphyllum Japonicum). The smell of toffee apples and candyfloss as you get near it just knocks your socks off. The amazing smell might be something to do with this bush loitering nearby too...

Chinese Spice bush (lindera glauca)

Actually, loads of the trees at Westonbirt smell great. And I haven't even mentioned the autumn colours. Hooray for Westonbirt!

Plant Love: Some Sensational September Smells.

Favorite smells from my garden this month...

Pictured top to bottom:

Rose geranium

Lemon Verbena; smells like lemon sherbert

Corsican mint

Heliotrope; smells like cherry pie.

Sniff them out!

and for some bad smells...
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/titans-penis-why-are-the-french-flocking-in-thousands-to-see-and-smell-this-plant-9577359.html