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 There are thousands of flower clusters on this orange jasmine tree, Murraya paniculata. It's almost 30 years old, and blooms several times a year, often on the full moon. the scent is gorgeous, and it diffuses for over 100 feet. I've been harvesting the flowers for tincture for years, making sure to do it early in the day because thousands of bees descend on it in a frenzy by afternoon. I can only imagine what that honey tastes like! Orange Jasmine tree in Anya's Garden A neighbor took this photo because she's so enamoured of the fragrance. She plucked a few flowers, and put them on her kitchen counter and they fragranced the room for the day. A few years ago, I posted a blog describing how to obtain a tincture of these flowers, but it applies to many flowers that you may have growing. Here is the link:  https://anyasgarden.blogspot.com/2023/05/perfume-tincture-of-orange-jasmine.html

  Perfume Tincture of Orange Jasmine Flowers by  Anya McCoy  |  May 4, 2015  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  natural aromatics ,  natural perfume ,  Perfume From Your Garden book ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  13 comments First, I have to thank my new garden assistant, because he was the first one in three years who followed my instructions to radically prune back my orange jasmine tree (Murraya paniculata) so that I would get lots of flowers. The pruning is needed to produce new growth, and the flowers appear on the new growth. Other gardeners just wouldn’t do it, fearing I would not like the woody, bare look of the tree, but I’m a horticulturist and botanist, and I had the tree managed for many years that way, but I just couldn’t convince them. Oh, well, thank you, Eric, you not only pruned it back, but in doing so, you discovered some hummingbird nests, which was wonderful. The snakes, not so much, but they were chased off t...