If you notice a lovely fragrance out back in the White Garden area, it's not the Sweet Autumn Clematis, which is past its major bloom.  Keep on walking around back of the White Garden and beyond the long cut flower bed until you are at the border of informal large grasses and shrubs.  There are three very large Osmanthus in full fragrant bloom.  They are evergreen shrubs that look like a very well-mannered holly with nonspiny leaves.  Other species of Osmanthus will follow suit soon.  Give your nose a treat (but watch out for fire ants!  It's that time of year again).

The Fearrington Gardeners