i can or could agree with you on some of the list, if you don't take care of your plants, i do have gold flame honeysuckle. i have it on an arch. every fall i clip it back to about 6" or so, and in the spring it comes right back up and just as beautiful as ever!! when we first bought our house, it had over a foot of dead vines under the live ones, i had to cut all that back, it was a real pain in the butt!!! now it looks great though, also on that arch is my orange trumpet vine for the hummers. and that one is very thick!! but it also has to be cut back. if you don't do this it all just dies for the next years growth anyhow. so i don't know why people wouldn't want to cut it back?? and severely!!! and the honeysuckle smells awesome!!! :') ~Medo

I was at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens yesterday, and the witch-hazels were out! 'Arnold's Promise' generally gets good marks for fragrance, but I found some of the orange cultivars had a spicier, almost orange-blossom fragrance to them. Chionanthus (wintersweet) was fantastic: it's not very good-looking at other seasons, but it's hard to find a better winter-fragrant shrub, I could drink in the scent all day. Winter honeysuckle wasn't open yet, except for a bloom or two, but it's my absolute fave winter bloomer, so I'll take what I can get. Sarcococca hookerana was just opening up, but I find the smell very faint. I saw one corylopsis in the Japanese garden, looking quietly elegant with its short chains of bloom, but couldn't get close enough to smell. I've likewise heard loropetalum can be fragrant, but never got much scent from any I've smelled; I'd suspect the white cultivars would be more scented than those bred for leaf and flower color. Spring's on the way! Jim

Recently I bought this one recently in 4inch pot. Very healthy looking plant with droopy bonsai look stems/leaves with several sets of buds. The plant started blooming though the flower is small the fragrance is strong, maybe similar to orange jasmine. I am planning to give away this plant to someone who can stop by to pick it up in exchange for any other plant. I live in Vienna, VA.

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