Specialty Gardening: Your most fragrant plants by ranking, 0 by Melissande

Melissande wrote:
Well, last first: if by moon vine you mean the morning glory or some sort of evening primrose or even a datura, no it's not any of those. I will do my best to capture the wild green stinkus on film for you all, as soon as I sniff one out. It blooms same time as autumn clematis and that's out now. (BTW it smelled WAY more than the clematis, and my whole porch was covered with that at one time.)

Muguette is the French name for lilly of the valley. There's a classic perfume out there named 'Muguette' which is the same perfume as the lilly of the valley. A big favorite of mine.

Did I forget anything? Oh. Doubt the florida thing is the same as sweet annie. Unless your Florida annie is a six or seven foot tall weed? just did a little research and apparently the straight poop on sweet annie is that it's an annual native artemesia --that means its a relative of wormwood and dusty miller. It's a big family, artemesia! The right name is apparently artemesia annua, and some seem to consider it an herb. When I looked it up on google images, it was plain some people were indeed growing it in their herb gardens as a tame herb. I've only ever known it as a wild weed in SW Ohio, so I hope you'll forgive my ignorance. But I can certainly STRONGLY recommend it to you as a wonderful herb, a wonderful dried herb, and a wonderful way to chase the men out of the room when you want to talk about them!!!

O. Also, interestingly, the World Health Organisation appears to be studying artemesia annua as an antimalarial. Who knew? Here's a pic of a frond of A. annua or Sweet Annie. picture it seven foot tall and sticky.

Melis