Winter has its personal magnificence, which you’ll be able to see out a well-placed window. However chilly air has its personal scents, too, the tinny fragrance of ice, the recent scent of lifeless leaves which ought to stink of rot, however do not, perfumed shrubs like daphne and ‘Birthday Candle’ banksia and aromatic kinds of camellia and hyacinths, rosemary, lavender. Hungry yellow robins dart about you, hoping you may uncover a worm. There is a freshness about winter air that is by no means present in summer season. Scents are extra outlined, and chilly soil smells like … chilly soil. There is no such thing as a scent prefer it. Nor any pleasure fairly like seeing your onions, garlic, kale and broad beans nonetheless rising at minus two levels.
