to this bare and innutritious place have I, after years of flowerlessness, removed my great old bush of Chimonanthus fragrans from the Terrace Wall.

A deciduous shrub with a bushy, much-branched habit, growing to 2.5m or higher against a wall. Leaves are lance-shaped, 5-12cm long, shining dark green. Flowers solitary or in small groups, almost ...

The greyish foliage smells of garlic when crushed. Height to 18cm (7in). Hardiness rating H5. Chimonanthus praecox ‘Luteus’. Trained against a south or west facing wall, where the sun-ripened shoots ...