Welcome to the new Fragrant Gardening forum

By request, here it is!

Yeeeehawwww!!!
Oh thank you all so very very much! You guys work so very hard for us and we do so appreciate your tireless efforts. DG is THE best place to be on the net!

2006 is sure looking up here at DG.

Yipee!!! Thanks, Dave! Thanks, Terry! What a great beginning to a great new year!

Isn't this great? I am sooo excited. Now what do you wanna chat about first- LOL!


Edited to add: heavinscent is to also be thanked for getting the ball rolling!

This message was edited Jan 3, 2006 1:20 PM

Ohhhh .. duuh-uuble boy-boy-sers!!
... Many thanx, miss Terry.

- Magpye

Hurray! Just found this. Isn't it wonderful? Okay, y'all keep posting all that great info. It's time to start planning! I'll be planting in containers mostly, so any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.
... Elaine

Whee! I'm thrilled.

WOW! Thanks Dave, thanks Terry, Y'all are the very bestest :>)

Don't forget to add this forum to your favorites!

This message was edited Jan 3, 2006 3:42 PM

I'm going to love this forum! I love flowers that are not only beautiful but highly fragrant as well! Thanks! (two of my favorites are the Gardenias and the Suave Brugmansias. Can't wait to learn about more!

wow! i'm offline for a few (seemed like years) days and look what happens! thanks, dave, terry, trish, everybody involved. now where the dickens is heavinscent?

I've been wondering that too. She should be here celebrating!

me thinks this thread will smell
ROFL

Oh tazzy you are soo bad! LOL!!

Thanks to y'all I have some 4 o'clock seeds coming! LOL I've never seen them before, so I'm very excited.
... Elaine

Elaine,
You are in for a treat! 4 o'clocks smell so very heavenly!!

I got some, too Elaine. I've heard so much about them. I found a request for a garden plan forum on another thread. Somehow I had missed it.

I had some technical difficultys, but Im back to find this!! Wowee! I cant thank you all enough! This is going to be too much fun!! Dave,Terry, DG'rs you guys are awsome!

Y'all are VERY welcome - I hope you enjoy your new forum, and I'll probably peek in occasionally too (I love my scented plants, too!)

How fun is this!!! I just saw our new forum. Thanks so much.
Sharon

Yeah, isn't it just great. Thanks, Dave, Trish and Terry
... Elaine

Thanks, Dave and Terry, I often wondered why there wasn't a forum for fragrant plants. I love them. I love Dave's as a whole. Great job.

I'm also really glad for this new forum. I really love fragrant plants and have been shopping the internet for seeds and plants. Just found some Butterfly Ginger at an ebay store called
HERBS-MINT-4-U. I ordered two rhizomes (got 3) and they were in great condition. I am leaving them in the house in planters until spring. I hope to learn about many new plants here. My favorite natural fragrance is a vine that grows wild here called Scuppernongs. Its really a wild grape, but the scent in spring is both musky and sweet at the same time. Hope to grow one here soon.

Hi Defoe ... sure is good to see you over here. LOL I may need you to help with a visual discription from time to time so stick around, girl!

Elaine,
I'm lurking here also,,,,,LOL. Want to learn all I can about the best flowers for fragrance.

Kelly

OOOh great! Now y'all can help me pick out the best of the best. LOL I get soooo confused when I'm reading all this stuff. :)

LOL,,,,me too

Kelly

Confusing? nah...If it smells good your on the right path. Fallow you nose! as said by some crazy bird on a cereal box ;-)

Ok - question for you all! What plants with fragrant flowers can you grow as houseplants? This is my new goal. I wonder, maybe, if Oriental Lilies could survive indoors? I just love those and they smell wonderful.

Karrie

Karrie! Hey, glad to see you here!
You can always force paperwhites[they really fragrance a house!] and other "daffodils". Some people have had good results growing gardenias indoors. I believe there is a cultivar that is especially suited for indoors as I have saw it in catalogs claiming such. Also the scented geraniums do well indoors, I am told. Mine died from frost before I could bring it in to try it. There is also a spath [peace lily] that I've read is very fragrant- though I have been unable to find one. I can't think of its name but I will find and post it later.


Don't know about OL. You would have to have a sunroom I would think. I have never personally known anyone to grow them indoors but I guess anything is possible.

I suppose most lilies could be forced, as are Easter lilies, but they wouldn't make a good house plant. They only bloom once a year and need to die back with a cold season. Once out of bloom, they're not much to look at. Otherwise, I'd gladly have a house filled with them. :)

Karrie,
My #1 Choice indoors is Chinese Perfume Tree. It looks like a boxwood shrub, but it packs a fragrant punch!
http://www.rareflora.com/aglaiaodo.html

Hint, hint......Aglaia odorata doesn't yet have any comments: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/60784/index.html

I think it would be GREAT if everyone here would share their rave reviews of their favorite scented plants within PlantFiles. (To my mind, it's the personal comments like "This is my favorite scented indoor plant" that are most helpful to others reading a PlantFiles entry, and the thing that really sets PlantFiles apart from other less-personal databases ;o)

Great new forum: thanks to all who requested it and to Terry and Dave for making it happen.

Thanks for the hint Terry I never gave it a thought.

I'm here, I'm here!!!

Jody

Jody,,,
Me too, me too,,,,LOL

Terrific idea to put what Terry suggeted in the plant files comments. Those are the first things I look at when looking up a plant. I Always like to see what comments others have about a certain plant.

Kelly

I'll definitely have to get another August Beauty Gardenia this year. I lost mine during moving and just loved her.

Oh boy,oh boy...fragrant roses belong here.heehee

YIPEEEE!!!

Wow, I didn't even know there was a campaign underway for this forum! What a wonderful surprise to find it today!

I love fragrant foliage & blooms! DH kids me that my plants are required to multitask... To find a place in my garden, an ideal plant should not only look pretty, it should also smell good and taste good! I do make an exception for some plants... My African violets have no scent, and I don't eat them, and yet I have quite a few.

Kerrie, one of my favorite tender perennials that I grow as a houseplant in winter is scented geranium! I have several pots of different varieties inside now, and when I've just watered everything (as I did this morning) and brushed against all those leaves, well, the whole house smells fabulous! My meyer lemon is in full bloom right now, and there are a few flowers on my key lime, so that adds a lot to the scent bouquet downstairs... and even the single bloom on my jasmine adds a distinctive, delicious note!

Howdy neighbor...critterologist. I'm in Germantown. I just recently came back to Dave's after a few years. I didn't know this was a new forum. I'm glad it's here. I love fragrant plants. Lilies are my favorite..oh wait, I like tulips too...then again there is that dark purple petunia. Will spring ever get here? It sure feels like spring today.