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Happenstance wrote:
It does smell amazing and fills the garden and the house with its wonderful aroma. They do stay in the ground year round and these two are a year old.

Brugie, as far as future blooms go.....these same two plants were pruned severely at least 3 times from July til Dec last year. They bloomed right up til around Christmas. Full branches and 3-4' of tips of branches were removed. Additionally the wind took out a large top branch on one of them during a winter storm.

I pruned them once already this year because they were shading the plants underneath and behind them. I'm not finding that pruning them curtails new blossoms or if it does, I still think it has plenty! :-)

Here's the one on the right last year in early July.