By Plant Hunter, Lark Hanham.
Supplied at the optimum time to plant, we present winter-flowering Daphnes. Among the most fragrant shrubs in the garden and winners of accolades including Plant of the Year, they are a rare but highly sought-after plant commodity. Positioned in the garden next to a window, doorway or path, their delicious sweet scents will add fragrance to your home and garden through some of the gloomiest months of the year. Presenting attractive – sometimes evergreen – foliage, gorgeous flowers and thought-provoking berries, they offer plenty of interest. Preferring deep, rich free draining soils, Daphnes require sites where their deep root systems aren’t restricted. Average height and spread 1m.
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Ideal for adding to a shady border where its neat compact habit makes glossy evergreen domes, this variety tolerates dry soils – perfect for growing in woodlands or areas that suffer from dense canopy cover. Displaying slender curled-back leaves, at the end of each stem yellow-green flowers poke through. Although subtle and understated, they are magnificent. Flowering from March to late April, it’s a great variety to plant with bluebells, which offer a similar flowering time and enjoy comparable situations.
Having just won the highly acclaimed Plant of the Year award in Australia, Perfume Princess is a unique and enchanting Daphne that combines the vigour of a Bholua-type combined with the fragrance and floriferous nature of an odora. Its compact but upright branching stems are covered in glossy evergreen leaves all year round and the alluringly sweet perfume wafts into the nearby atmosphere. Offering flowers from November to March, which are at least double the normal size, Perfume Princess is beautiful and well worth the accolade.
This rarely offered fragrant variety flowers from February to April and offers a rounded spreading habit topped with ovate, glossy, and dark green leaves. Also referred to as the twin-flowered Daphne, its curious blooms appear in duos and, as they age, an interesting red blush adds contrast and charm to the back of each bloom. Their amazing citrusy scented flowers are later followed by fleshy, black fruit.
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