Osmanthus fragrans 'Conger Yellow' Gene Cline in a gravel or dry

in a gravel or dry garden

and the dye that colored the colonial world came chiefly from tropical kin such as Indigofera tinctoria

where the winter-long bloom feeds hummingbirds and butterflies through the dry months when little else is working

The flowers of sweet osmanthus are gui hua in China

thriving in fertile

Osmanthus fragrans 'Conger Yellow' Gene Cline in a gravel or dryFor all the sweet osmanthus grown across the South, most carry the same tiny white flowers, so 'Conger Yellow' arrives as a quiet surprise: a clone bearing clusters of soft, butter yellow blooms against notably large, glossy leaves. The flowers keep the family gift, that warm apricot and honey perfume that drifts on autumn air and, in mild climates, returns in scattered flushes through much of the year, strongest as evening cools. The species itself,