Oh wow, you've got good juju up there!! I think that's the biggest Gardenia flower I've seen. Is the 2nd one Portulacaria? I had no idea there was one with pink leaves - so pretty!

Did you try to email Glenn and ask if he is totally out? Perhaps he pulled them off the site and had a cancellation, plants are not even shipped up here in zone 5 yet. Not sure what his policy is but it's worth a shot. He is a good guy and has such great plants!

Well, it is probably a simplification to link bee colony collapse with air pollution. Two things should be kept in mind, though. All kinds of insects pollinate plants, not only honey bees. And the scent of flowers really is being masked by pollution. That seems really conclusive. Oh, and there is a reason why flowers have evolved to be scented. Honeybees and other insects do use scent as well as visual communication. They are pretty remarkable animals, really. Bees actually have a symbolic language of dance by which they communicate with each other. (Rudolf Steiner, by the way, thought that our beekeepers' square hives are harmful to bees, which in nature make rounded hives.) There is a good summary of the bee problem from a 60 Minutes program on Youtube 60 Minutes: Why Are Honeybees Disappearing? Pt. 1 60 Minutes: Why Are Honeybees Disappearing? Pt. 2 (don't know how to embed so you just have to go to youtube) I have also attached another interesting link about humans, bees, and scent. Here is a link that might be useful: pollution snuffs floral scents

Butterfly, thanks for the detailed info. If it can be maintained under 3-4", I can live with it. I am going to check that nursary again in the fall when the plants are on sale. Freki, Marquest, excellent choices. Plant some annual in between might be another solution. Frankly, among all the fragant blooming plants, annuals, preannual, shrubs, trees, the longest lasting fragrant and wafted plant I have is the old fashion petunia. It blooms none stop ever since it started . Boy, I love its sweet scent!. In spring time, I have tons of fragrant flowers blooming. lilac, mock orange, sweet william, flowers from various bulbs, iris, etc. which last till sometime in June. after that,there aren't many fragrant in the air. I try to fill the gaps. Butterfly bush zoned to grow in 5 but in reality does not grow/flower reliablbly here. I planted summersweet this spring. it started to bloom in mid-later July. It is done blooming now. Its scent is not as strong and waft as I thought it would be. It may due to its first year, the root system has not fully established yet. Do you have summersweet grow in your yard? What is your comment on this plant? I did bought a clematis few weeks ago, Sweet Autum. It is supposed to bloom around late Aug to Sept. But it is stilll in container, has not been planted in the ground yet. Does anyone know if there is a fragant trumpet vine that grow in zone 5? My neighbot has one with very showy salmon/orange flowers,beautiful leaves, but has no scent. I thought knock-out roses are not scented? How strong is the scent? If you get one, please post some commets on its scent.