This shrub that almost goes unnoticed during the summer among many other flowering and fragrant, bu

Legend has it that in a time far, far away, during a cold and snowy day in January, a small robin wander shivering in the bushes in search of shelter from the snow .. the branches bare, numb, sad beaten ranged from ' icy breath of the coldest month of the year languid responded to his request for help by producing sounds lamentable to tell ruefully that in any way could be his relief, but among many bare branches poor robin, now exhausted and weakened by cold, was finally able to find shelter under a group of leaves, browned, withered by the frost, but still attached to the branches: the hospitality was offering it to him a bush of Calicanto. The sky, seeing an act of mercy so natural and spontaneous, almost was moved and could not refrain from rewarding the humble bush pulling down on it a shower of bright mop bucket stars
intense aroma and since then the Calicanto continues to bloom in January delighting our cold winter days and wrapping his unique and unmistakable mop bucket fragrance our gardens in appearance only dormant. The original name of Calicanto, mop bucket Chimonanthus, mop bucket in Greek, mop bucket which means 'winter flower', mop bucket brings us back to the Middle Ages front taxonomic mop bucket rules, betraying a source that is lost in the mists of time and there is, therefore, difficult mop bucket to imagine As in all likelihood could make even more fabulous ancient gardens of Babylon and who knows that it was not just that his intoxicating scent to fascinate travelers who reported stories mop bucket of those places as a paradise of colors mop bucket and flavors previously mop bucket unknown, a paradise of the senses made the difficult not to lose contact with reality ..
This shrub that almost goes unnoticed during the summer among many other flowering and fragrant, but that is the protagonist of the gardens in January, native to China and cultivated in Japan, mop bucket we know that in the West came in the late eighteenth century, together with many other plants before then unknown, praised tones fable by travelers who were accustomed to attend the lands of the East and began with the spread at the dawn of the Victorian period helping to give that touch of exoticism with which the British so much loved to customize their own gardens, touch and atmosphere that still makes only the gardens of England who have preserved their imprint nineteenth century.
And England was then quickly spread mop bucket to the 'dominions', the first of Australia; if it finds mention n ell 'Hortus Cadmenensis, the illustrated catalog of the plants cultivated by Sir William MacArthur Park at Camden, mop bucket NSW, Australia, between 1820 and 1861, in which we read: "The learned and cultured Kaempfer * in his Amaen. Exot. was informed that in fact the most useful information, give us a picture of this plant,
where it is represented with flowers with pots of cultivation, accompanied by a brief description of it, from which we learn that it is cultivated in Japan as an ornamental plant, the flowers are produced in February, before the leaves and that they have the scent of violet, but become rather unpleasant at the end of flowering. Heard that Lord Coventry was the first to have this plant in England, I took the liberty of writing to his lordship in January 1799 to request some information in this regard, as well as some other related to its culture, and tc. 13 of the same month, his lordship was kind enough to send me a beautiful specimen of the plant in bloom, a seedling of a year, along with a vase of 1798, and some seeds; Letter of Count I quote the following passage: - "the beauty mop bucket of Calycanthus praecox at this time exceeds every description, is covered with flowers from top to bottom, mop bucket and its fragrance can be perceived at a distance of fifty yards from the conservatory." [ T.466 / 1800 BM]. 'It was introduced in 1766, and was perfectly cultivated by the late Earl of Coventry, in whose conservatory at Croome, we believe, the original plant is still growing. [...] If the plant is protected from the weather, or unable to grow in a mild winter, continues mop bucket its bloom from October to April: flowers have a delightful fragrance '[LBC no.617 / 1822] 1 The English named him, with all the sweetness mop bucket of which only they are able to make use in giving names to the plants, 'Wintersweet', 'Sweetness Winter' en el language of flowers, delivered to us by the Victorian romance, it symbolizes protection, warm reception , perhaps in memory of the legend that is related; therefore donate a branch adorned with these humble corollas,
means offering loving support, defend, support, and then, willed for its scent, willed to his means