Tea Olive, Fragrant Olive, Sweet Olive. This is a very popular fragrant plant that is cold-hardy and very easy to grow! Small white flowers in winter and early spring cover the shrub, then it blooms sporadically throughout summer. The apricot-scented fragrance released is powerful and exquisite. This variety blooms on and off year round, with the most profuse blooming from Winter through Spring in Florida. See article about this plant.