California Gardening: What's happening in your mid summer garden? , 0 by PedricksCorner

PedricksCorner wrote:
I also love scented flowers. Which is actually a new thing for me. Up until about ten years ago, if it was in my yard, it had to have a function. Fruit, vegetable, or herb!
Thank you surfcity, it is simply English Lavender. Which actually does better when not treated like a drought tolerant plant ;-) Even though it is certainly capable of surviving extremes. My experience with the French and Spanish lace leaf lavenders is that they are more for show, none of them smell all that wonderful to me. But then, I just met a lady with quite a collection of lavenders up on their hillside and was floored by the varieties of blue and all of their truely distinct scents!! I had no idea! Now I am going to have to find some of those for my hillside.
Meanwhile, my Peacock Orchids/Acidantheras/Gladiolus callianthus depending on who you are talking to, have finally started to bloom. Soon, two large containers will be covered with these scented little glads. A gentle scent calls and you wonder what that delightful aroma is, then you discover it is coming from these guys!