@greenappleagnes
Yes, Casey, I have 2 at present. I 1st learned of these & fell in love with them in the early 80's when I lived west of Tallahassee & worked for a landscaper. They were commonly called Tea Olive, at least that's all I ever heard them being called. Then I moved back to the Palm Beach/Martin County areas & you could not find them there. No one had them, no one seemed to have ever heard of them.
Here, where I now live, they are more commonly called Sweet Olive rather than Tea Olive. Still -- Osmanthus fragrans.
Someone asked about the fragrance. I think the tea in the common name best describes it (to me). It has a tea leaf fragrance running among the sweet fragrance. I find it a quite unique combination. This isn't just SWEET - it's more than that & the tea scent moderates the sweet scent in such a way as to prevent the sweet from becoming overwhelming, sickening, make you gag sweet, because make no mistake about it, these blooms have a powerful, powerful scent. You do not need a lot of them in order to saturate your yard with beautiful scent.
