Cool - please let us know if it makes it through the Winter. Has it bloomed yet Harper?
Favorite Fragrant Plants
yes, it bloomed in June and now it looks like it's making another 'round. I feel embarrased... I didn't smell it. Next time I will!
We don't have the Winston-Salem tobacco platations, but CT tobacco was used as a superior cigar wrapper(outer leaf). May still be. But the amount of tobacco farms has dwindled tremendously. Used to be all around Hartford. More apples around my way.
I am one of those who is happy for the decline of tobacco farms, though I do hope the farmers have found an equally lucrative, but healthy, crop to grow.
I agree with you Michaela. I also grew the woodland tobacco last year and did not notice any distinguishing scent. It will not be a repeater. I do love the smaller flowering kind though.
Did they have a nice scent Anita? Was it subtle?
I will have to take a sniff tomorrow morning and let you know
Got to get hold of some sweetgrass!!
My butterfly bushes all smell like sweet cloves & are unmistakeably fragrant...Everyone comments.....I wonder if they smell better in some areas than others? Here in the south, they are famous for the fragrance, so maybe they just like it hot & humid to give off their scent....(or could be it makes up for the lilacs which don't like it down here)
Sorry about that clematis Armandii, Victor, it won't answer for cold weather...I didn't realize when I recommended it that it was zone 8 to 10. My Hyperion daylilies have just finished their bloom time...wonderful! I have a fragrant tea olive which is blooming out of season, too...generally they bloom in the dead of winter. Thats a trip to go out into a "dead" garden and have that fragrance come wafting up to you.
Foggy
Wow - wish mine smelled like cloves. That's the scent of my fragrant Viburnums.
My White Profusion butterfly bush smells like honey!
I haven't seen people mention plumerias or magnolias.. Although magnolias are a bit high and harder to smell...
right now, you can't beat the scent of this yellow Stargazer - it's intoxicating. . .
nice Seandor.. I've haven't seen a yellow stargazer before either though.. If you ever want to share that one, I'd love to volenteer. :)
Seandor - your yellow Stargazer is beautiful. Did you plant it last year or before that? Any special place to buy them? I love seeing big drifts of them.
yes yes, inquiring minds want to know
Yes, my deer would love me to plant more!
your deer or you "dear" sorry had to say it.. :)
I would never refer to my deer as dear, believe me! Running over with a Deere is an 'ideer'.
lol... My DH does that backward... He often refers to me as "his deer." But I agree, he would never call the deer "dear" though..
Okay - the yellow stargazer is just a baby. It was planted last fall. It was part of a special "stargazer" collection - 3 yellow, 3 pink (normal stargazer), 3 white from Michigan Bulb.
They are the ONLY thing out of a very big order that survived - everything else was a HUGE disappointment and I will not order anything from them again. But that was before I discovered DG in January.
So - this year I will baby my lilies along. All blossoms deadheaded - and lots of feeding. Eventually - in a few years, the lilies will be big enough, and strong enough to start creating volunteers - meanwhile, you could probably get them from:
http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/381432-product.html
or
http://www.dutchbulbs.com/bulbs/hybrid-oriental-lily-golden-stargazer/index.html
Seandor: Since you're new at lilies you might want the catalogue from Dutch Gardens. I love their lilies!
http://www.dutchgardens.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-DutchGardens-Site/default/ViewStandardCatalog-ProductPagingDG?CatalogCategoryID=X48KAANy0sMAAAEREitM%2evv7&=&=&=&=&=&PageableName=Products&PageNumber=0
OMG!!!!! I am in 7th Heaven. I LOVE lilies! Well, this will blow off the better part of the morning . . .oh well, can't play in the dirt anyway, but there are papers to mark and courses for the fall to organize . . . oh, bother . . . I am going to look at lilies and drool . . .
The Flowering Tobacco I have is not "smoking tobacco", but Nicotiana alata (Jasmine which is white, and Lime Green) and x sanderae (Perfect Mix - white, purple, deep rose, reddish purple). I believe I purchased the seeds from Select Seeds (selectseeds.com). I have seeds to give away also - and they self-seed very nicely.
Seandor (and everyone else) - you would LOVE Olallie Daylily Gardens in South Newfane, VT (daylilygarden.com). They have quite the collection for us yankees! They sell different sized 'clumps', with anywhere from one fan to more than three fans.
Has anyone grown these?
Nicotiana x sanderae Dwarf White Bedder
Nicotiana x sanderae Domino Mixed
Got them from Value seeds last week. Price too good to pass by.
Trying to picture how they would look (and smell) at the end of the house by the mudroom door along a path to the side and front door. Bed is 36" wide. Shade in the AM, with full afternoon sun. This area cannot be seen from the road or house. Only impact is when walking right by. Are they too low to the ground (Dominio is 12". White bedder 16")?
Would a taller Nicotiana be better? Is the bed wide enough? Should I consider something else for fragrance in this area? Kitchen door and BBQ area is 30-35 feet away. Will the fragrance travel that far?
Have an area 3' by 10' to play with (more if I tear out a hibiscus which is not great looking and was probably planted over a decade ago).
I had a taller one (name unknown) and it self-seeded too much, flopped too much and too many deadheads end up on the driveway, in my case.
If you find something whose fragrance goes 30' please let me know!
Clethra has for me! My neighbor's French lilac does too.
Well, I just spent 45 minutes at the Olallie Daylily Gardens . . . I need to take a drive there in July :-)
While I don't have Clethra our lilac is very fragrant and so was the Honeysuckle until I ripped it out.
Oriental lilies too. And some years - my fragrant hosta.
I agree but for me they're fragrant within maybe 20' unless conditions are perfect and then not much more than that.
I have just seen this thread for the first time ever! How did I miss it??? Interesting memories for me. I no longer have any sense of smell at all, but I do remember some flowers I loved to smell.......gardenias, jasmine, orange blossoms.....
I like most everything every one has already mentioned. One thing I can't stand is the wild cherry trees that bloom in the spring. They stink so bad, its just a strong sweet sickening aroma that fills the whole yard. I am so glad when they are done blooming.
ngam - I've had a few plants that others seem to love the smell of that I can't stand either.
Too bad computers haven't come so far that we don't have a scratch and sniff screen for plants so we could all try before we buy.
stargazer lillies have a smell that i daresay travels about 30 MILES, much less 30'!
There are a LOT of plants that people love for fragrance that i cannot stand. i think it is because i have a really strong sense of smell. (Really? Out of all five senses, THAT is the one i get extra power in? sigh..) Lilacs are nice - but from FAR away. Stargazer lillies make me ill - i'll never know why they are in so many cut flower bouquets. It seems sadistic to me, to expect someone to have them in their home!
And i don't like the way roses smell at all. (ducking as rose people throw rocks at me!)
Roses?!! Wow. I'm not crazy about many lilies - they're just too heavy and strong. Don't like brugs. Don't like Butterfly Bush. My Winter King hawthorn stinks. The worst smelling of all is my Blue Muffin viburnum. Like rotting flesh.
Amy, You have another superpower to add to your superhero: supersmell
i pulled out - well, got DH to pull out - a salvia because i hated the smell SO much. Everytime i walked by that part of the wall, i found myself trying to discreetly check to see if maybe i forgot to use deodorant.
And i am not sure if i will plant marigolds again - they were easy, cheap, and looked nice, but i could NOT get the smell off my hands after deadheading them. And i am an OCD deadheader, but i would only do the marigolds about 2x a week...
You have a lot of gardening issues, Amy. Maybe knitting would be better!
Sarcococca - late winter
Osmanthus - early spring
Viburnum carlesii
Iris, especially germanica
Philadelphus - There is one on my property that is over 50 years old - it has the cleanest sweet fragrance - not cloying at all. It blooms a couple weeks after the Styrax japonicas bloom.
Styrax is one you can smell 50' away! And they're great the first few days & then become overwhelming. I escape to the Philadelphus for olfactory relief.
Roses - certain types. I prefer the spicier/fruity fragrance to the old rose smell.
Lilies - some are overpowering, others are delightful.
2 things that smell divine:
Orange blossoms - walk through an Orange grove in full bloom if you ever have a chance.
I used to live on the Big island - when the White Ginger blooms, you can smell it a couple miles away.
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victor - i think knot.