Should I say that you are like the withered wintersweet?

Vernacular names for the plant include "dune poison bush" and "wintersweet".

How nice it was, he said, to be standing among “witch-hazels, wintersweet and sarco… what is it?”

At the summit, the company also operates a small zoo, a plum garden, and a wintersweet garden.

In one corner, a great southern magnolia towers over another wintersweet and a golden patch of yellow-twig dogwood.

Chao Mountain, between Linping and Tangxi, is famous for wintersweet.

The colour of church candles, the curious waxy blooms of wintersweet appear on bare branches throughout the winter months.

There, on a chilly afternoon, a shrub called wintersweet stands in full blossom, its purplish flowers giving off the scent of old-fashioned gardens.

Somewhere, someone was playing the Basin street blues and the air, as I recall, was filled with the scent of Wintersweet.

Chimonanthus (wintersweet) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calycanthaceae, endemic to China.

There were camellias flowering, witch hazel and wintersweet, and rows of paperwhites beside the driveway.

Fill vases with blooming branches of wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox) to enjoy their lemony fragrance indoors.

The wintersweet, Chimonanthus praecox, has a definite "on" period in winter with its flushes of fragrant crimson and yellow flowers, but is a little dull otherwise.

At the moment snowdrops, cameilias, daphne, witch hazel, Christmas box and wintersweet are all starting to flower in National Trust gardens.

Nestled in the corner, where one glass house meets another, the She-Goat eats, her udders distended, by a six-foot-high shrub of wintersweet.

This year, winter-blooming shrubs like witch hazel and fragrant wintersweet were a little ahead of themselves, but they have flowers that can withstand the cold, Mr. Cullina said.

Planted a few feet apart, the trees will stunt each other naturally, and the addition of a winter-flowering shrub such as fragrant wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox) creates a middle storey.

But when we moved to its side, so that this lonely mortal was on the same plane as the wintersweet and magnolia, the energy of the figure was released upward, like the trees.

Standing in Yunhai Tower which is on the top of the Chao Mountain, visitors can see the whole mountain is decorated by various kinds of wintersweet with different colors.

Another species identified as "wild za'atar" (Arabic:za'atar barri) is Origanum vulgare, commonly known as European oregano, oregano, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter marjoram, or wintersweet.

In just a few weeks, the waxy yellow blossoms of the wintersweet - now a humble-looking mound of bare sticks - will spice up the entire courtyard with the first intoxicating fragrance of the new year.

The garden is home to a round pool in a round walled garden filled with wintersweet and roses, a Dutch garden of lamb's ears, lavender and the most beautiful orangery of the 20th century.

Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox) is renowned for its sweet scent, but shrubby honeysuckles such as Lonicera x purpusii and L. fragrantissima and Sarcococca confusa or S. hookeriana are a good match.

There comes a time in one's life when instead of switching channels when Gardeners' Question Time starts on BBC Radio 4, you find yourself soothed by discussions of wintersweet, sawfly and lousewort.