Mexican orange blossom

sweetly scented white flowers in clusters above aromatic evergreen leaves.

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Choisya ternata
Choisya grandiflora
  • evergreen shrub
  • aromatic, palmately divided foliage
  • fragrant white star-shaped blooms
  • flowering April-May
  • second flush in autumn

H 2m
W 1.5m

full sun

well-drained

Notes: Brought as a small cutting from London garden in 2019. Slow-growing and potted up 2021 Summer – first few blooms. Not looking happy and healthy so re-potted April 2022 in John Innes #3 alongside white clematis ‘early sensation‘ for the Potted Cottage garden