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CAROL KLEIN

This week at
GLEBE

COTTAGE

‘Most winter-flowering

shrubs have small flowers, as
big blooms would be torn to

shreds by gale force winds’

Perfume Jonathan Buckley

to die for! discernible and vital to the
survival of flowers brave enough
to bloom now to attract the few
insect pollinators on the wing.
One of the first shrubs we
planted when we first came to
Glebe Cottage was Viburnum
bodnantense ‘Dawn’. It comes into
Forget the cold weather, my favourite plants for its own during winter, its
winter scent will transport you to another place... branches decorated with dense
clusters of small, pink, intensely
fragrant flowers – the sort of
espite the appearance rewards as it will in summer night surrounded by the heady perfume that lures you back to
of snowdrops and and autumn, your sense of smell fragrance of honeysuckle, or on take another sniff.
D hellebores, winter can has plenty of treats. Perhaps we a hot day enjoying the air filled Unfazed by plummeting
be a bleak time. But though your associate scent most with with the perfume of roses. temperatures, it blooms on and
visual sense won’t have such rich summer, sitting out on a balmy In winter, scents are even more off from October right through

26 Garden News /January 27 2018