Another reason to be glad to be home–the “beauty bush” by my front door just started blooming!
These two clusters of yellow-centered white flowers shed enough fragrance to perfume my kitchen. (Behind them is a tiny tomato plant growing in a pot. Thank you, Whole Foods, for guessing how much I would like this!)
“Beauty bush” has none of the magic of flower names like “witch hazel”, “rhododendron”, or “forsythia.” And yet, quite a few different kinds of plant somehow ended up being called beauty bush–which makes it hard to go to the nursery and pick out another plant with the same wonderful, wonderful perfume.
Google Image suggests that this plant’s real name is Kolkwitzia.
Easy to see why most of us prefer its nickname…