Welcome back! I really like the scent of 'Snowbelle' which is also a dwarf but I must admit it looks ratty for the rest of the year after it blooms.

The weather has been great so the garden looks wonderful! I feel very lucky and content looking at all the blooms. We put in a new fence to replace the 20year old one, and managed to do it without trampling the plants (did it in early spring before things leafed out). The spring renewal/awakening in the garden always lifts the spirits

So far I’ve bought 2 new roses: Sugar Moon and Lasting Love.

There was a rose that smelled crazy fragrant - Delish - but I didn’t buy it because I didn’t think I have room for it. But now I think I’ll get it if I see it again haha

Robert, I finally bought a Charles Grimaldi brugmansia - your plants have been on my mind all these years. Looking forward to the flowers!

Maggie! Is this the Maggie I miss seeing around here? Welcome back and I hope to see a lot more of you. What a beauty you got there.

You made the best out of the space that you have and I do see more for more. Great job..))

Hi Mike, yes this is the one and only Maggie haha. How’s it going?

Yes indeed, I am in the process of enlarging a flowerbed under M. maudiae. The lawn keeps shrinking! We bought this house because I liked the large garden and now I wish I had more land. When I see people with a large but empty yard I get itchy fingers. What a waste!

We are DIYers so I was very proud of the new fence but now it is almost hidden by the growing plants.

Maggie, lol. That sounds exactly like my yard. In fact mines is worst. I planted some winter jasmine that has the most incerdible fragrance early spring before anything else even wakes up, that it has climbed onto my windows and window sill. I had to cut it back, I was so upset. I would of let it grow as big as it wanted too if I could of.

Funny how much we can squeeze in such smaller places. I can't tell you how many dianthus I bought this past spring and still don't know where to plant them.lol If there is an inch, I utilize it.

More and more fragrant plants and no where to put them, but I will find a spot, even if I have to sneak one into my neighbors sunny area. Ha

I'm ok. I am very happy to see you back. Have you been to the citrus forum lately? Do you have any citrus? You need some..lol

Yes I have a Chinotto orange. I couldn’t resist because it was the most fragrant amongst a whole group of different citrus plants. Stopped me in my tracks walking by. I should check out that forum as I’m fighting scale insects. I tried Neem oil and it seems to be working

Maggie,

if you read this thread, would you mind sharing the email, website or contact information from the osmanthus fragrans seller in China.

Did you end up buying the osmanthus ftom China? which one did you buy? did it arrive in good condition? did it survive and grow in your area?

Thanks