The New Southern Living Garden Book notes the tea olive's intense perfume: "Flowers are powerfully fragrant, with a scent like that of ripe apricots. Bloom is heaviest in spring, but plants flower ...

Folks: tea olive deserves a resurgence. Mandarin hat plant This Himalayan shrub is easy to grow and its flowers are irresistible to butterflies Sometimes called sweet osmanthus, tea olive can grow ...