A few notables

Recent visitors to the garden were enthralled by several plants, but two sweetshrubs (Calycanthus) caught their eyes. The large flowered ‘Aphrodite’ (Calycanthus ‘Aphrodite’, below) blooms a few weeks later than native species that faded two weeks ago, and with multiple buds it continues to flower weeks longer. My dysfunctional nose does permit me to comment…