Specialty Gardening: Can you smell it from here???? , 1 by podster

podster wrote:
Hey Chantell, LOL ~ this fragrance hit me and I started looking to the trees for the nearest Carolina jessamine.

I am ashamed to admit I do not start petunias from seed. I want to do the "sniff" test. If they don't smell, they don't get adopted. (Preferably purple petunias.) They do seed freely but I've never saved it. This one surprised me. I may have to change my errant ways!

On moving the pots out, I may have jumped the gun. Wednesday nite, I will be scuttling to move them all back to cover. Just once I got started, I couldn't stop... lost my mind.

Vossner ~ I have never whiffed the Tx. mountain laurel but it has rave reviews. So sad the blooms are short lived. The Freesia is wonderful. I've only had forced bulbs at Christmas time and indoors is wonderful! Those with allergies will just have to take another pill... 8 )

Fragrance1st ~ I ALMOST felt guilty about posting this... but obviously not enough... LOL Y'all in the north make us jealous in the sweltering heat of summer when the only fragrant blooms we encounter are the night bloomers. At that time of year, you're talking beloved plants that could not endure our heat and humidity. I will eat my heart out later in summer, I promise... pod

This was found on yesterday too. I moved the Callisia fragrans out to give it a soaking and some sun and found a bloom stem. It will be the second time it has bloomed. Supposed to smell great but I wasn't that impressed the first time. Will try a 2nd time to make sure I didn't like it! Waiting on blooms...