Chimonanthus praecox 26/5 Restock well-drained soil and tolerates the

well-drained soil and tolerates the damp ground red maples often colonize

the black beautyberry was perhaps first offered to the international market by Woodlanders

offering some of the season's first nectar and pollen to native bees

Linnaeus named the genus for him anyway

reported to grow well outdoors in Augusta

Chimonanthus praecox 26/5 Restock well-drained soil and tolerates theIn the dead of winter, when the garden has given up on color and scent alike, Chimonanthus praecox quietly does the impossible. On bare, leafless branches, often in January and February, the wintersweet opens small, waxy, cupped stars of translucent pale yellow, each flushed at the heart with maroon, and from them pours a fragrance so rich and far carrying that a single sprig will perfume a room. The Chinese name, la mei, the wax plum, catches the