Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 60) Osmanthus delavayi

One of the plants whose origins escape me. I suspect it was purchased at a nursery about a dozen years ago. This shrub lives in a pot on the patio. I found early on that it prefers indirect light to full sun. Its flowering levels go up and down from modest to extreme, but it always has some of the lovely white fragrant blooms for me to enjoy in March or April.

For 2020, this shrub needs a reboot. I need to pull it out of the pot, root prune it, add some fertile, fresh potting mix, and put it back. The size is the plant has reached is perfect for moving it around as needed and the pot is light, so I want to keep it the same size for now. One sprightly Corydalis solida lives in the same pot despite all the root competition. It blooms earlier, so this pot provides a couple of months’ interest.