Hi Mary!

Thanks for all the osmanthus info! Now I'll have to google them. :)

I live in Tulsa, OK and last year I left 'Betty Marshall' (a white brug with spicy fragrant blooms) in the ground and thanks to the mild winter we had last year it survived! The only problem is it takes all summer for it to grow large enough to flower. :(
It's been blooming for a couple of weeks now but I wish I had kept a larger specimen in a pot for quicker blooms.
You might try posting your question on the brug forum. You'd probably get tons of recommendations. :)

-Robert

Mary, "I especially like Prunus mume, and Trachelospermum and Pittosporum selections, chosen when hardiness was more of an issue in our area", we certainly have something in common. I wish I could grow Prunus Ume,Trachelospermum ... in ground.

Here in zone 7A, a Brugsmania sprouted, after a nasty Winter, but my experience, also, was that it grew so slowly that it only bloomed in very late Summer. It did not make the next Winter. If you like fragrant plants, I wonder if you are familiar with 'Wintersweet' Chimonanthus praecox, which would be hardy where you live. I have 3, growing in our poor acid sand very slowly, and none have bloomed yet, but they are supposed to be as impressive as O. fragrans.

Thanks Bogturtle for the follow-up. So no blooms for me this year on the Brugmansia Snowbank, but maybe next year. I have one Chimonanthus praecox of good size, and it set seeds this year. Here it blooms in the depths of winter, and I can scarcely smell it outside, but I bring a branch into the house and it is quite nice. Not as good as my favorite Osmanthus though.