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Pinkdamsel
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| | Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 10:04 am EST : |   |
A suggestion!
How about starting a new garden forum thread with "Fragrant Flowers in the Garden Forum"?
I'm always wondering which flowers are fragrant and like to include those in my garden. This way, GB folks can add theirs and talk about their fragrant flowers as well!
What do you think?
Pinkdamsel
- Louisiana,
Zone "9a"
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Plantynut
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| | Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 02:55 pm EST : | |
My opinion Stephanie: it would make an excellent thread in both annuals and perennials but there are to many forums now as it is.
Why not post your question. I am sure you get a ton of responses.
Plantynut
- New York,
Zone "7"
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Pinkdamsel
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| | Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 11:07 am EST : | |
Hi Plantynut!
I was thinking maybe one thread to cover annuals, perennials, the whole gamet. I suppose I could start a thread on fragrant flowers/plants tho. Where would I put it since topics are catergorized? (sp) :) Thanks Plantynut!
Others?
Pinkdamsel
- Louisiana,
Zone "9a"
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Gardenfiend
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| | Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 02:13 pm EST : | |
Stephanie, if you have experience or knowledge of fragrant plants, maybe you could write a piece for the "Articles" forum. That would be interesting for all of us, and others could add their comments.
Gardenfiend
- Germany,
Zone "7a"
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Maggiepie
| | Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 03:19 pm EST : | |
Hi Stephanie,
I very much like the idea of a Fragrant Garden forum.
One of my favourite nurseries in Oz is named 'The Fragrant Gardens', it sells all sorts of trees, shrubs , perennials and bulbs and herbs that are all fragrant.
It's really amazing just how many plants are fragrant, and is a joy to walk around a garden planted for fragrance.
Maggiepie
- New Brunswick,
Zone "4b"
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Pinkdamsel
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| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 12:23 pm EST : | |
Hi Mara, Unfortunately, I do not have experience or knowledge re fragrant plants/flowers and is why I thought it might be a good idea for a thread here at GB for all to learn. GB friends could add what they have come across in the way of fragrant plants.
Hi Helen,
The nursery in Oz, sounds absolutely wonderful!
Wish we had something like that here in N. O. Maybe you can share with us what you have encountered fragrant in Oz and add here at GB.
Thanks all. Others? Should we have a "Fragrant Plants/flowers" thread added at GB?
Pinkdamsel
- Louisiana,
Zone "9a"
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Lovinlife
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 - 09:23 am EST : | |
I'd have to agree with Arlene -- but that being said, a Fragrant Garden forum would really be nice.
Lovinlife
- Utah,
Zone "5"
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Flowerfreak
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 - 09:32 am EST : | |
I agree
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Maggiepie
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 04:52 pm EST : | |
Sorry I didn't see this earlier Stephanie.
Some of the fragrant plants I had in my Oz garden.
2 different types of Osmanthus -Forget their botanical names.
Viburnum burkwoodii
Viburnum carlesii
V. x carlcephalum
Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)
Honeysuckle
Some sansanqua camelias
Daphnes
Freesias ( lots and lots)
Gardenias
Philadelphus Mexicanus
Philadelphus coronarius
Philadelphus virginalis
Philadelphus Minnesota Snowflake
Mahonia -Can't remember which one was fragrant
Buddleia davidii
Choisya ternata
Eucalypt-Lemon Scented
Lavenders
Lots of roses, all fragrant
Lots of herbs
These are the ones that come easily to mind.
Maggiepie
- New Brunswick,
Zone "4b"
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Charlenenj
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 10:35 pm EST : | |
My passion for gardening began with Glenn Varner's old site, flowerscentgardens which sadly is no longer in business but only sold fragrant plants. I adore that man! His catalogues were the best, with his passionate descriptions of each plant's fragrance.
I like a STRONG scent that floats around the garden and doesn't require me to stick my head in the flower. I find that I can't really smell heliotrope and some plants like fragrant daylilies unless I am very close to the flower (same goes for fragrant moonflowers). Here are the plants I have tried/have that have the headiest perfume for me - the kind that you smell from a distance:
1. Viburnum -- my Mom has some mature plants and oh boy don't they waft fragrance over her entire property in the spring. May be my favorite. Sadly, I grew a Viburnum Carlessi (from Glenn) from a baby and it made it to about 2 feet high until I tripped over it, completely severing all branching from the main stem. Gone.
2. Cestrum Night Blooming Jasmine- night blooming Jasmine. The only thing I make the room for in my house to overwinter. I put it out in Spring, it climbs like 5 feet and then...on a hot summer night near the end of the summer I get the most INCREDIBLE perfume that can be smelled 3 houses down. I tuck it into my permanent plantings near my front walkway so I can enjoy the scent which lasts on and off for a few weeks. The most powerful, glorious fragrance!! And hardy in Zone 9!!!
3. Petunia, "Priscilla". http://www.gardennj.com/supertunia_priscilla.htm Very nice spicy scent - great for a hanging basket near your doors. I always make sure to have some spicy-scented petunias in a hanging basket. I find they are fragrant pretty much all season.
4. Clethra Alnifolia -- I found the yummiest scented one to be the dwarf "Hummingbird". Nice glossy leaves. Late season blooms.
5. Hyacinth - I love the kind that is more "open" (blooms more free flowing and not so tightly held) called "Festival". I have a row of pink ones lining a walkway.
6. Honeysuckle - an oldie but goodie. Yum.
What I'm trying new this season: Tuberose (single, not double) and if I can find it - orange peel jasmine.
Happy sniffing.
Charlenenj
- New Jersey,
Zone "6b"
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Plantynut
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 05:50 am EST : | |
Charlene this is a great list. I may just have to look for those petunias.
Plantynut
- New York,
Zone "7"
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Terryk
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 06:59 am EST : | |
Me too. Charlene that's a great list. I don't see moonflower vine on it-what's your secret on getting this started so you have them before frost hits.
Terryk
- NY,
Zone "6"
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Loretta
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 09:00 am EST : | |
Don't forget witchhazels.
My spirea, Magic Carpet out does my roses.
Also, Southern Magnolias and scented deciduous azaleas.
Loretta
- NJ,
Zone "6"
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Periwinkle
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 09:16 am EST : | |
My favorite are fragrant flowers. I too, like Charlene, like a flower that isn't shy about its fragrance. LOL
Lilacs, of course, Oriental Lilies!, Nicotiana!
Periwinkle
- Northern Wisconsin I'm proud to support Gardenbuddies.com ,
Zone "3b "
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Charlenenj
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 09:18 am EST : | |
Hi Terry. For me, the scent of moonflowers isn't so strong that it can be detected a few feet from the flowers. I do love the soapy smell of the flowers but I have to be a few inches from them to smell them. I start the vine indoors in February but I find that even when planted outside in Spring, it really doesn't grow (foliage) until much later in the summer. Not until about August does it start climbing quickly and then buds appear. The earliest I've been able to get flowers is very end of August; usually it's more like the first week in September. Doesn't seem worth it but it's kind of fun when the rest of the garden dies down and then out of nowhere the front of my house gets covered in a big leafed vine and the flowers are so big you can see them from a distance. Plus, my daughter's bday is Sept. 13 so I love things that bloom around that time.
PS to Loretta - your Spirea, "Magic Carpet" has a strong fragrance? I never heard of that! I don't have any witch hazel but I do have a cousin called "Fothergilla". The blooms are supposed to be fragrant and I suppose they are (honey scented) but again, not unless you stick your nose in them.
Charlenenj
- New Jersey,
Zone "6b"
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Valia
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| | Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 04:52 pm EST : | |
One of my faavorite fragrant flowers is a weed -- wooly mullein. It smells like those cookies called "lemon coolers". I can almost taste the powdered sugar coating. Not much of a garden plant, but they grow wild up on Huckleberry Mountain, and I let them have their way in a few patches here and there.
Anne
Valia
- UT (winter) WA (summer),
Zone "8 and 5"
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Bulliedeux
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 05:20 pm EST : | |
I've been mia since Dec while overhauling 4 rooms and 2 hallways.
Just decided on a quick peek here at work before going home... and going back to "home"work.
Voila!! Fragrant Flowers.
I don't know about a separate forum but the topic is one of my favs. Fragrance, flower, foliage, interesting bark are keys to join my horticultural herd. A great fragrance is a sure way to stick around. Even if you're high maintenance like Brugmansia.
Do you realllly enjoy fragrance? :) I even like the smell of 'Bells of Ireland'. Few if any people even think about giving them a sniff until I force it on them.
The madness series of petunias, esp. "Orchid" had great perfume in the heat. Heliotrope, Iris, viburnum, I like the smell of annual geraniums, marigolds, lilies like CasaBlanca, Autumn Damask rose is my absolute favorite of many roses, I WISH dahlias smelled like they looked :( , phlox like 'David', some peonies are AMAZING!!, I continue to battle a collection of different mints I planted in ground one year - what a pest but the annual rip & tear is a nose-party!, dianthus, carnations, and prick your nose a few times on echinacea. Get a stand of common purple magnus in bloom in a warm afternoon and you'll love the fragrance.
Charlene!! I too was a flowerscentgarden groupie. Did you ever notice CHRYSANTHEMUM “BLAINE’S FALL COLORS”
in his last 2 catalogs? :)
The mum is sooo cool. He didn't mention the fragrance but on that warm fall afternoon when their in full bloom, the scent of honey, milk and cinnamon wafts through the air.
Bulliedeux
- IL,
Zone "5b"
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Bulliedeux
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 05:27 pm EST : | |
Fragrance to be wary of maybe? :)
Holy dracula dung! Spider flowers are one of my favorite but get downwind of a stand of them and it's smells like someone goosed a skunk!
Definitely an example of "all things in moderation". They reseed/volunteer nicely and now days I only let them congregate on the east side of my property which makes them DOWN WIND in my prevailing westerly winds during the growing season. :)
Bulliedeux
- IL,
Zone "5b"
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Growit
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 05:35 pm EST : | |
EJ What do you reckon? This thread has taken on a life of its own.
I was waiting for it to be moved into an existing thread or to be given a place of its own so I have not as yet added.
Can we please have this as a seperate thread? There already seems to be a lot of interest.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Charlenenj
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 06:08 pm EST : | |
Oh yay. Another flowerscentgarden groupie! I can only find my catalogue from 2004 and the only mums in there are:
Burgundy Button
Emperor of China
Frosted Grapes (I always wanted to order that one)
Hillside Pink Sheffield
Summer Snowball
Sunny Morning
Vampire
Glenn was my inspiration to start gardening. I found him doing a search for honeysuckle which I wanted to plant when I finally bought a house in 2004. Then I read through his catalogue and became smitten with his descriptions of different plants. Now here I am obsessed with plants 4 years later. Anyhow, you must have a very sensitive olefactory (sp?) sense. I have trouble smelling my David Phloxes and even heliotrope. It doesn't sound like I'd like Spider flowers though!! On the other hand....fragrance is in the nose of the beholder. I kid you not -- my Grandmother cannot stand the smell of Oriental Lilies whereas I adore the smell so much I end up with all that orange pollen on my nose.
Charlenenj
- New Jersey,
Zone "6b"
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