Gardening Shady Style is all about creating a beautiful garden with rare and unusual plants. Shady Gardens Nursery provides Native Plants, Rare Plants, and Old-Fashioned Plants for a beautiful garden year round.
Osmanthus fragrans: Sweet Tea Olive
One of my most favorite evergreen shrubs has to be the Tea Olive! When in bloom, my whole garden smells like peaches!
I must say Osmanthus fragrans is one of the easiest plants to grow. This large growing evergreen shrub grows well in full sun to partial shade. Not picky about soil, the tea olive tolerates clay soil and is drought tolerant (once established.)
The most sensational bloom is in fall, but Osmanthus fragrans blooms sporadically year round. The fragrance is most notable in the evening on warmer days.
Blooms are so tiny that you'd never suspect the heavenly fragrance is coming from them!
Evergreen foliage is a rich green that holds up well in floral arrangements.
Osmanthus fragrance is hardy in USDA Zones 8-11, but is often seen in Atlanta which is Zone 7. Can withstand temperatures down to 10 degrees with no foliar damage.
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