Alys Fowler: ‘This plant is hellbent on bringing all the bees to your yard’ – The Guardian

winter honeysuckle (Lonicera x purpusii)
Wintersweet. Photograph: Alamy

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/26/winter-scent-honeysuckle-wintersweet-gardening-alys-fowler

If you make a winter honeysuckle (Lonicera x purpusii) happy, it dusts itself in creamy-white, highly fragrant flowers. Like many winter-flowering species, its scent is so strong that it carries for some distance – I’ve often found myself, nose up in …