Aglaia odorata, Chinese Perfume Plant smells terrible?
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Robert (zone 7a, Oklahoma)
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OGR fragrance with other perfuming plants
Comments (18)I mistakenly planted honeysuckle my first year of gardening - it has spread to the point of killing out other plants, even monster shrubs, in the garden. Lucky for me it's in an area that I don't grow many plants in, but it DOES stop me from gardening in that area ever again until the day comes that I'm willing to drop enough Roundup in that area to kill out all of that honeysuckle which will also kill my mature shrubs I planted. I'm running out of space unless I want to clear some trees, so I've been eyeballing that area. I'm not willing to sacrifice my mature shrubs that took SOOOO long to get big. As to the other fragrant plants. Roses have a different kind of fragrance. You don't really smell them till your nose gets in the bloom, unless you are growing bunches and bunches. But even with lots of roses in a small area, the fragrance of something like sweet almond verbena will totally overwhelm it. Not in a bad way, but you'll smell the sweet almond verbena and forget about the trace of rose smell in the air. I've got it in my rose garden. As recently as a year ago I would have said that there is no such thing as too much fragrance in the garden. BUT Last fall when all of my sweet olives bloomed (I have tons of these- maybe 50? 60?) it was finally too much. I love the smell of apricots, but it was overwhelming. I have so many banana shrubs that they will probably end up doing the same thing one day! Night blooming jasmine will overwhelm anyone. I've actually moved one of these off of my porch because I felt sorry for my dogs!...See MorePlants that smell like citrus blossoms
Comments (10)P.S. Dear Ankraras, Puregrass is a kind of astroturf, and you are an idiot. Please keep your garbage off of here. Dear Jim, Thank-you for bringing up some of my favorite plants! How do you grow all this in Brooklyn? You are just one of those amazing New York gardeners. Watch out for those female Chinese Alianthus trees your neighbors probably specialize in! I agree with you. Osmanthus (Tea Olive) is pure apricot-plum. Could there be a little orange blossom yeast in Holly Osmanthus - I will have to smell and record this Fall. Dear Kevin, Aglaia (Chinese Pefume plant) and Murraya Panniculata where among my earliest horticultural successes as a boy in Middle School! They were both sold interchangeably as "Jasmine" with no other identification and reccomended for "Low Light" according to the plant tags, and for about $1 in Shopright, and H&L Green back in the day. "Low Light" was all that excited me in that phase of my development, because they could live in the interior spaces of my bedroom (already packed with spider plants and wandering jews demanding window space), whearas my favorite fragrant plant - the eastern red cedar - much to my dissapointment could not. And they did survive on my desk and on the bookshelf above my bed, along with ivy, creeping fig, sanseveria, and surprisingly aloe vera, the aglaia much more adaptable in these adverse conditions than the murraya. (It would be a few years before I discovered "true Jasmine fragrance", a Jasmine Sambac plant - again purchased as a foliage plant, without knowlege of the fragrance - and its amazing scent quite by accident. I've always thought of writing a tacky song in the style of Billy Joel's "Oh, What a Night" about the experience.) Alas, H&L Green is closed, and to see the prices on Aglaia and Murraya charged by retailers such as Loggees, considering what stalwart plants they have always proved to me, makes my head swim. But to return to the topic, Aglaia and Murraya are often confused, and not just because of the general incompetence of supermarket plant tags. Their foilage is very similar. When I would put my plants out for the summer, they did indeed bloom. Aglaia liked the shade and bloomed with little yellow balls, that smelled of lemon. Murraya on the other hand would not do a thing until it recieved some sun. Then it would bloom with little white flowers like orange blossom, and smelling like them too. The point is, I don't think Aglaia smells like orange blossom at all, but rather like perfumy lemon(fruit). Moringa Olifera (Miracle Plant) also looks like these two and is sometimes confused with them. Unlike Murraya and Aglaia, it stages a Victorian death scene the very moment you suggest to bring it anywhere near the interior of a house. It has foliage like the supermarket "Jasmines" above, requires full, full sun, and has white flowers that are fragrant in their own way. Best wishes, and Enjoy! Sincerely,...See MoreWhere to buy Boronia, Aglaia and Cestrum in Europe?
Comments (4)Boronia megastigma is impossible to find i have searched all over europe usa and Australia no one has it and if they do they are not willing to ship. Aglaia Odorata and Cestrum nocturnum can be found at http://www.pflanzenkindergarten.de/ you might need to translate as you do not say where you are from plus you can try hibiscus3951 on ebay. You really should be able to find Cestrum in most places to be honest hope that helps...See MoreID help - chinese perfume look alike but very expensive
Comments (3)This plant called 'Nine Miles Fragrance' in China. It grows all over at northern part of Taiwan. In Taiwan, the flower clusters bloom prolifically. However in my cooler home, it blooms sparsely. The clusters were observed to be held over next year to bloom. It can set seeds in Taiwan and the seed-droppings would develop many seedlings under the mother bush....See MoreRobert (zone 7a, Oklahoma)
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