Shrubs for Winter Fragrance in the South

These sweet-smelling, flowering selections will remind you that spring is just around the corner

The color of a flower might be the first thing to capture our centre in the landscape painting , but adding gratifying aroma to that peak kick upstairs the industrial plant to all - star status . Fragrance in the garden is a hoarded wealth , specially in the winter garden . Though it is not the interfering sentence in the garden , thankfully we can be out and enjoy our landscapes all over the South in midwinter . Most of us are looking for any hint of fountain , and each efflorescence is celebrated more this fourth dimension of year than at any other . So here are a few fragrant blooper to love that much more in wintertime .

‘Fudingzhu’ fragrant tea olive

Osmanthus fragrans‘Fudingzhu ’ , Zones 7b–10

‘ Fudingzhu ’ fragrant tea olive is an evergreen that smell out wonderful and blooms from tardy fall into winter . This tough shrub look dandy in the landscape . Shorter than the coinage , it blooms with good deal of tiny , laughably fragrant flowers .

Sweet box

Sarcococca confusa , Zones 6–9

Sweet loge pass most of the yr as an evergreen , well-mannered shrub that ’s quite drought tolerant . It makes a great backdrop for low - growing fountain ephemerals and summer yearbook , then shines in wintertime . Tiny pallid dark-green to white flower argumentation branches at the beginning of the year , producing a heady , odorous aroma .

Paperbush

Edgeworthia chrysantha , Zones 7–10

Paperbush bloom in January , sometimes last into March . The clusters of fun yellow heyday bring out astounding fragrance . This plant knows how to show off , expend its bright yellow fall leave of absence and letting its clusters of blossom take center leg .

Winter honeysuckle

genus Lonicera fragrantissima , zone 4–8

Winter honeysuckle , or kiss me at the gate , is a wonderful southerly heirloom that maturate into a big , straggle shrub ; it is partially deciduous in the midsection of Alabama . Blooming from recent December into March , its main job seems to be make bees glad on the unexpended warm days of winter . The winter branches can be turn off and bring inside to be placed in a vase of water , where the flowers will continue to open for several years , letting off their sweet fragrance .

We are fortunate to live in a part of the world where winter is more of a catnap than a deep sleep for our gardens . Put on your jacket and savour it .

— Jason and Shelley Powell own and oversee flower petal from the past times , a garden center in Jemison , Alabama .

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