Pittosporum Tenuifolium

Pittosporums can be magnificent. Some varieties smell so deeply of orange blossoms that you can smell them hundreds of feet away. And then there's Pittosporum Tenuifolium. In the summer it smells like sun-baked sidewalk urine. Why do people use it as a hedge? Why?

This year I'm working on my hate abatement, because life's too short. And while passing by a bush after a nice rain, I found something to like about this otherwise revolting shrubbery. It turns out that it has a beautiful purple-black flower. I'm kind of obsessed.