Japanese Cheesewood | Pittosporum tobira

With its attractive evergreen foliage in emerald shades, this pittosporum can really hold its own as one of your garden's plants when it comes to year-round interest. The flowers, which are borne in large umbels at the end of spring and start of summer, radiate a truly lovely scent, boasting discernable notes of orange and honey. Japanese cheesewood has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, a sign of its great performance in British gardens. Versatile and easy to grow, this shrub, which also goes by the name Australian laurel, will work brilliantly along other fragrant favourites, such as choisya.