I first smelled the wintersweet for the first time last year February. The scent was so heavenly. My neighbor cut a small branch with 3 flowers on it and gave it to my mother. It filled up the whole kitchen dining area.
I then went for a search online and bought the seeds to plant. They only had the Purple Heart. Not the luteus that my neighbor had. They grew to about 1 foot tall in the past year.
While planting the wintersweet Purple Heart, my brothers friend told me about the michelia alba. The smell was just as nice. I went online and bought the plant since the seeds were hard to germinate. Another fragrant plant I love.
After looking up wintersweets, I landed on calycanthus floridus Carolina allspice sweet shrub that suppose to smell really nice. Bought that as well as seeds to germinate.
On a hunt for fragrant plants.
