<img src="http://static.theenduringgardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/daphne-Jacqueline-Postill-512x384.jpg" height="375" width="500" alt="Daphne Jacqueline Postill coming into flower" />
<img src="http://static.theenduringgardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/daphne-odora-Aureomarginata-512x384.jpg" height="375" width="500" alt="Daphne odora Aureomarginata about to flower" />
<img src="http://static.theenduringgardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/daphne-retusa-512x384.jpg" height="375" width="500" alt="The fragrant Daphne retusa in flower" />
Three of my daphnes are flowering, or on the point of doing so – D.‘Jacqueline Postil’ has been out for the best part of a month. Rather puzzlingly, Daphne retusa has been flowering in a modest way most of the winter and D.odora ‘Aureomarginata’ is covered in fat pink buds that will burst into flower any day now. I don’t remember D.retusa behaving this way before – very odd.