Most fragrant plants of my British garden: Cestrum parqui, the green Cestrum / Chilean night jasmine

Cestrum parqui, commonly known as the Green Cestrum, is also called Chilean Night Jasmine, Green Night Jasmine, Willow-Leaved Jessamine, or Palqui. It is a great plant for the fragrant garden, with a very long lasting blooming season from June to September, producing hundreds of tubular flowers with a light scent during the day, vaguely similar to washed cut potatoes to my nose, which transforms in the evening and at night, in a very intense gorgeous fragrance, soapy with notes of citrus, like the most wonderfullly scented laundry detergent, definitely a great choice if you are looking for a plant able to fill with perfume your garden during summer evenings. The plant is deciduous or semi-evergreen, however in spring and summer develops a very lush foliage, intensely green, and it also looks great in tropical looking gardens, with the bonus of bringing its unique fragrance to this type of gardens. Cestrum parqui is reported to be hardy down to minus 5 degrees Celsius, but in my experience it is hardier than this, because in my garden it resisted one week at minus 8 degrees Celsius during the very cold spell known as "Beast from the East" in early March 2018, therefore I can definitely recommend this plant as winter hardy in most of the United Kingdom: in these very cold periods, the aerial parts of the plant will die down but it will sprouts in spring again from the underground. This is a plant that thrives in full sun or at least partial shade in well drained soil, growing up to 2.5 m tall and 1.5 m wide, very easy to grow. Considering its hardiness, ease of cultivation, long blooming season and gorgeous evening and night fragrance, this is in my opinion one of the absolute must have plants for a fragrant garden in the United Kingdom. I hope that you enjoyed the video, and if you liked it and you would like to support my YouTube garden channel and have regular updates, it would be great if you would subscribe to my channel by clicking on the button "subscribe". Also, any comments, positive or negative, is very welcome as well as any of your enquiries, to which I will try to respond as soon as possible. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you in my next video.