Viburnum x burkwoodii 'Park Farm Hybrid' Low Stock and the fragrant spring flowers

and the fragrant spring flowers perfume the whole area before the long harvest begins

remembered the bloom that comes before the leaves

the rabbiteye earns a place for the year: white

rhododendron

evergreen leaf is bordered and splashed with creamy white

Viburnum x burkwoodii 'Park Farm Hybrid' Low Stock and the fragrant spring flowersSome viburnums are grown for the eye and some for the nose; the Burkwood viburnums are firmly the latter. Viburnum x burkwoodii is a cross between the intensely fragrant Viburnum carlesii and the glossy evergreen Viburnum utile, first raised by the brothers Burkwood and their partner Skipwith at their nursery near Kingston on Thames in England in 1924. 'Park Farm Hybrid' is a sister seedling from that same celebrated work, selected for a bolder flower