Description
A superb plant first found by Ethel Savory. It has been developed in the Netherlands by De Goede Bulbivaria, who patented the strain in 1999 with the cultivar name ‘Golden Fragrance’.
It is a free-flowering strain and the name draws attention to its colour and beautiful, penetrating scent, not unlike Gardenia or Stephanotis. We have no trouble here with cold hardiness of the typical plant but this one is, by repute, more cold-hardy and it is thus more suited to our customers in colder climates. US zone 6-9 is suggested but with a winter mulch it has apparently managed zone 3!
Like the typical form the flowers are blue-grey in the bud but by the time that they mature and open, they are bright golden yellow with fragrance that will demand your attention as much as the colour.
Well-drained, fertile soil in full sun these are best left undisturbed once planted as they belong to the small group of species that have perennial tap roots and it is better if these are not damaged by annual lifting.
