Lilies: Share your yarden?, 1 by jmorth

jmorth wrote:
Moby,
Miracle Grow is poured over them every two or three weeks till they bloom. I've had two large pots of tuberoses for several years. Some references say to discard after flowering but mine keep throwing up flowering scapes each year, probably the scapes in subsequent years are from new tubers. The fragrance permeates the air for yards around them; I read somewhere that it takes over a 1000 grams of flowers to yield 1 gram of the essential oil used in perfume. The Aztecs used the oil to favor chocolate (Manual of Bulbs).