...as I'm sure this has been asked before....and btw hello to so many familiar faces!!! Sooooo....due to the generosity of several incredible DG friends I've fallen in love with these beauties!! Actually found my first bloom yesterday on my CG....the scent tonight? Amazing! Which brings me to my question - as much as I like "looks" - scent is number one for me (hence my collection of Gardenias and Jasmines...LOL). I've heard consistently positive things about Dr. Seuss and CG. So other then those...if you had to pick your top 5 for scent....what would they be?
Please don't shoot me....
Brugmansia arborea isn't the very strongest smelling, but it's probably my favorite. It has a great spicy smell vaguely similar to vanilla.
- Tom
New Orleans Lady smells just like Lemons! THE most fragrant brug, in mty opinion.
Golden Lady is my personal favorite. New Orleans Lady is second with the lemony scent. My favorite for Baby powder scent is Sunray.
Inca sun fills my yard with her perfume every night, and never stops blooming. It is not the most beautiful brug out there, but is a worker with a beautiful fragrance.
Pink Insignis is one of my tops. I have one next to my front door and when I walk out at night or first thing in the am, the scent is to die for.
Ya'll are great....thank you for the responses!!!
dot - how would you describe the fragrance of Golden Lady?
raglady - and Inca - spicy? baby powder? citrus?
Jan - how's the tuberose and ginger doing for you? And your arm...how are you feeling, my friend? I so how that brug I got from you ends up being a insignis...I'll be excited regardless but I know you rave about that scent! BTW you should see all the growth on the Vigna Caracalla!!! No sign of blooms...may have to wait for next season for that - I'm patient so that's fine.
Hey Chantell,
Everything is doing great. The arm is healed and back to normal use. Even got a slight bit more rotation in the wrist with the plate gone now. I will be cutting back the insignis soon as it's getting too leggy. If you want a definite cutting, let me know.
OMG Jan...how exciting is that - re your arm!!! Good to get a positive result when you have to go through something like that. You are such a doll...I wasn't hinting re the insignis - I was thrilled with our trade....but IF you find yourself with extras...well far be in for me to turn down a pretty.
It's getting ready to put out a flush right now but I will probably trim it back afterwards in a couple weeks. I'll let you know. You don't have any Forrestville White do you. I received some in a trade recently but they didn't take.
Now if I did you KNOW I'd share...but I just started with the Brug obsession beginning of Summer and am "attempting" to behave and only obtain the ones with a really good scent. I can peek and let you know what I do have since, if I understand correctly, I'll need to cut them back when I bring them indoors.
I like How Cherokee Smells Like Oranges
Wow Paul.
Like having fruit trees without the rats, eh! How's my Kapok doing. Taken over your house yet.? Ya coming to my RU in October?
Creamsickle has got to be my favorite now. It smells like baby powder and I love the flower form even though it almost never turns from creamy white to apricot. In fact I prefer it creamy white.
Jan am going to tryto come the Kapox is close to 20 feet high ill get a pic when the wheather is better to show you Paul
Chantel
Here is New Orleans Lady just coming out tonight. My sniffer does not work well anymore I can hardly smell a rose, but I can smell her, she has a very strong sent, very nice like citrus. She is my most difficult burg, she has dropped most of her buds and I haven’t found a setting that she likes. I love her so I’m trying to figure her out, she is so worth it.
Betty, Creamsickle is just gorgeous.
Donna
Chantel,
I will be cutting b. insignis pink back in the next week or so. If anyone else would like to trade for some cuttings, drop me a dmail. She is an easy grower and consistent bloomer. Blooms in large flushes and very fragrant from late evening till morning.
I have just ordered one here in Australia that is said to smell just like hyacinth ...a white double. Do you have one that smells like that? ...I am really looking forward to that and I am after the seeds of the one over there that smells of lily of the valley ...anyone know the name of that one?
Beautiful pics everyone...thank you for sharing...always good to know from fellow DGers what our sniffers are enjoying out there!!!
Hi Chantell! So....you also started a Brugmansia obsession this year? Busted, haha! I'm becoming pretty addicted myself...so what's your veredict on the most fragrant so far?
LOL - I stand guilty....God forbid a growing season passes w/o something new catching my attention...but I'M RUNNING OUT OF ROOM!!!!
Sadly (or not) I've only been able to enjoy one Brug actually blooming. Rec'd a CG from a sweet DGer....have him potted beside my front door....ahhhhhh - what a scent!!! Absolutely clueless how to describe it but safe to say VERY nice!!!
Yeah I know...I don't know how to describe the scents either! But....they are marvelous!
Chantell does CG stand for Charles Grimaldi ? I received several pieces of that this spring and 1 bloomed earlier this summer. Now it's getting ready to bloom again and so are two other plants of CG! We're dipping into the 40's at night this week so I moved the ones about to bloom indoors.
MollyD
Yes, Molly that's what I was talking....
Molly, it should still be fine outside until you hear the first frost warning. I would bring it in then.
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Thanks bettydee. I didn't want to risk loosing them.
MollyD
Please don't shoot ME, lol...but how do you get a frost warning? Sorry I'm new to this!
In my area they announce it on the local news on tv. Don't know if the radio does too or not since I rarely listen.
Also I subscribe to a weather service (via computer) that issues reports specific to my area and they'll say frost expected in such and such locations tonight.
MollyD
Good idea. I'll see if they have something at weather.com..
Wish I could find the link for you but my computer crash wiped out all my files. I have to wait for them to send me an alert in order to share the link with you. I do remember it was through the National Weather Service.
MollyD
No worries Molly. I'm under the impression we don't get frost here, isn't it supposed to be under 32F for frost to happen? (sorry again for the silly questions, I'm from Brazil!)
Yes...32 is the "freezing" mark...wouldn't think your glorious part of the world would be subject to that too frequently...LOL
LOL in your part of the world robcorreia you can probably plant your brugs in the ground and let them become the trees nature meant them to be.
Enjoy yours while mine are cut back and huddled up down in the basement! Frost here can happen from about 38 degrees down. 32 is freezing but with the right conditions frost can happen above that temperature. I'm at a higher elevation so my frost comes in later than down in the valley where cold air sinks into. In spring I'm also later to have things thaw out so it evens out.
MollyD
I only have one to smell so far and it's Aurea Pink. To me it smells somewhere between citrus and perfume. The third night it opened,it was so strong, I could smell that one bloom inside the house. I am so proud of my Brugs and mine aren't half as spectacular as the pics all you Brug Lovers have been posting. Here mine is,at night,when it smelled the best.
Hey, I said I'm FROM Brazil, I don't live there, lol! But yes, Molly, my Brugs are in the ground!
Posyblossom, that is a very pretty pink bloom. I don't know how but you can almost SEE it's fragrant! : )
I wish I knew how to describe my brugs scent other than saying "marvelous" and "fantastic" , like you just did with "citrus and perfume". If anybody else over here has a Versi-peach, let us know how you'd describe the fragance!
Thanks robcorreia,spoken like a true Brug Lover☺☺if you are as smitten as me,I too look at Brugs pics here and I swear I can smell them☺marvelous and fantastic are great smell descriptions☺
cherokee
Hummmm! I LOVE MARZIPAN!!! But mine does not smell like sweets, more like a sensual perfume. Gosh I wish we could do a "scratch and sniff" sort of thing online, hehe
Roberta,
"a sensual perfume" - Mmmm, I want cuttings of your's when available!!! That sounds amazing!!! ^_^