Winter Sweet
26/01/10 10:25 Filed in: Shrubs
Chimonanthus praecox
Small, yellow waxen globes.
Open
to
the incredible perfume
of
Winter Sweet.
Chinese apparently, growing at 10,000 ft among mountain scrub.
The outer petals have a certain translucency to them. Especially when moisture hangs.
While the inner petals are purple.