Most bluestars are smooth
reported to grow well outdoors in Augusta
offering some of the season's first nectar and pollen to native bees
well-drained soil and tolerates the damp ground red maples often colonize
Chimonanthus praecox 26/5 Restock Most bluestars are smoothIn the dead of winter, when the garden has given up on color and scent alike, Chimonanthus praecox quietly does the impossible. On bare, leafless branches, often in January and February, the wintersweet opens small, waxy, cupped stars of translucent pale yellow, each flushed at the heart with maroon, and from them pours a fragrance so rich and far carrying that a single sprig will perfume a room. The Chinese name, la mei, the wax plum, catches the