Alrighty.....WHERE'S EVERYONE at??????
I'm SO excited....I just HAD to share....my grafted Michelia x alba????? Has BLOOMS!!! OMG - the scent...I LOVE it!
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Orange Jasmine 'Lakeview'....beats the Energizer Bunny any ole day - she just keeps on going
Guess we should throw some color in here....some oldies but goodies....'Stargazer'
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'America'
Passiflora 'Maypop'
T. divaricata 'Flore Pleno' - she's getting ready - another "first" for me!!
Dwarf Meyer - more blooms....how did I live w/o the citrus blooms
chantell - lovely blooms. my myers lemon also has blooms now and it does smell great outside. I never noticed it in prior years - normally I only catch the first flush of blooms.
Hymenocallis festalis blooming. I have to get up close to get the scent, but others with more sensitive sense of smell says that they can smell it from afar.
it makes a wonderful cut flower too.
S and up - I'm going to have to look that one up!! I love it's interesting shape!! And don't you just love the citrus blooms?!?!?
My T. divaricata 'Flore Pleno' - buds opened up....very nice scent on these - wouldn't call it wafting exactly but very nice!!
lovely flowers, everyone.
Orange jasmin looks like it would smell delishous. Mike
Oh Mike...she IS...easily one of my favorite plants for scent...
Rangoon Creeper buds just ready to open...didn't catch a pic of the couple of blooms that had opened...nor did I detect any scent....
Any of you with exp. with this vine????
go to Tropical forum and there's be lots of chat on this one. I dont' grow it.
Good idea Nery...actually I bet RJ would know
No photo but I just harvested, offered and ate a home-grown pineapple. It had a coconut scent and flavor mixed in with the pineapple! I'm replanting the top.
Ohhhh Kevin that sounds positively YUMMY...kinda like a pina-colada sans the alcohol
The Bouvardia longiflora's bitty self is COVERED in bloom/buds....ahhhh the scent of Eden, I'm sure
Waiting to see what Fiddlewood smells like "first hand"....anticipation
My Arabian jasmine's covered with blooms....very nice scent!!
Mysore Mulli after the rain
nice photos
i think the rangoon creeper reminds me of green apples.
this begonia has a nice light cinnamon smell
Chantell , Candela,& Soilsandup, beautiful pictures.
Wonderful fragrance from imported German brugmansia. Marbech will fill your greenhouse with a scent that is across between Gardenia, Magnolia, hints of citrus all rolled into one. Love this brug!
I feel my nose-a-twitchin' just hearing about her. Boy those yellow and white blooms of various plants kick butt don't they?
Chantell, Where'd you get the Bouvardia? Seems nobody grows them here in Fl. I've seen a red one but no fragrance.
cannagirl great color on that brug.
chantell is that mysore mulli a jasmine? never heard of it
i have a few different gingers here all blooming for the second time. amazing how they all smell so very different
in this section i have three different brunfelsias i will leave it to your imagination how wonderful it smells at night here
dependable orange jasmine.
i can barely see the flowers on the ylang ylang anymore because this has become a huge tree. but there is no mistaking when it is in bloom. it kind of smells a lemon dish detergent.
Kevin - got her from Logees....she is seriously one of my favorites for scent now!!!
Candela - the Mysore is part of the sambac family...now where did I get her from???? Have to check my notes...yup, she's the one I got on sale thru the Tops Tropicals site. Nice scent not quite as strong as Maid of Orleans though...
Chantell where did you get your MichelliaxAlba ? I got one and petted it for two years . Cat knocked it off porch , broke tip out , came back ,and then died the next year . I think I must have overwatered . Carried that baby back and forth to Texas two winters . I'm so proud of yours , could we have more pictures please , full plant ?
My moos are great and will probably bloom for me next year . (They go back and forth to Tex too) . digger
Chantell, does the michelia alba smell like "jucyfruit" gum. If so I rooted one, and my oldest daughter has it. It gets full sum, and is growing like a weed. It also stands the winters here. LMK, and I take more clippings. Mike
mqiq , that's the michelia figo . The alba is't cold hardy . D
digger - my oldest DD was unsure what to get me for Christmas....she heard me mumbling while surfing ebay one night about how I didn't know if I wanted to dump a chuck of change (I whine when paying double digits for even larger plants - sad, but true) for this plant...blah, blah....blah. So she said, how about if I buy it for you for Christmas? Not that the sweet plant enjoyed being stuck in doors but she made it thru the rest of the winter and has thrived outdoors. I'm sorry, digger, yours died..that's so disheartening. I cringe every time the dogs go flying past her on the deck. Although I've learned that investing in a slew of those heavy duty stakes (of various) sizes while they're "in season" is well worth remembering to do. And NEVER, never buy the cheapo pots regardless how marked down they are! I will stand by my Misco pots (middle priced ones) that Walmart carries every spring/summer! Talk about off topic...someone duck tape my mouth...quick!
Mike - her blooms do have some "fruity" undertones to my nose. The plant that I have (no blooms yet) that's known to smell like the Juicy Fruit gum is the Climbing Ylang Ylang Vine/Artabotrys hexapetalus. I thought I lost this one - then again come spring with those nasty cheap pots. But she's got all kinds of leaves on her now...so I hope she'll be ok. As for the michelia figo - I don't have one of those as I decided (after listening to Vi talk about the both of them) to purchase a Michelia skinneriana from Almost Eden this past spring. I believe she (the plant - not Vi) has buds now...waiting patiently to smell these "first hand." Wondering what ya'll have found the hardiness to be on the Michelia skinneriana...