Abiqua Ambrosia. Thanks for the thread - I'm a fragrance addict & can't wait to see the posts.

Emerald Charger

Cathedral Windows (a replacement when voles ate my Stained Glass)

Fried Bananas

Frozen Margarita

Guacamole

Plantaginea

So Sweet

Guacamole aka Guacamole Don!

Sweet Bo Peep, sport of Invincible.

Cathedral Windows, new

GUACAMOLE

STAINED GLASS

AVOCADO

LEDERHOSEN

CATHEDRAL WINDOWS

GINSU KNIFE

I like your Dark Shadows, Jo.
Been trying not to add DS to my spring order...just added 2 others yesterday...
Another frutal attempt at holding back...
*sigh*

Same ailment here! Thank you re DS. It's a one-of-kind in the garden, so lustrous and dark. I was adding Fragrants last spring so it came on board....after seeing a mature picture posted. It gained some more leaves after I bought it. Very happy with it so far.

Cathedral Windows

The Shining-Got it in 2012. Had some setbacks, hail damage, pests, but should be a lot better this season. Great color, in my opinion.

Fragrant Blue getting covered up by Cerveza.

Mojito, Sugar and Cream and Stained Glass, with Avocado peeking in on the right.

Don B.

Fragrant Blue, Cerveza, Emily Dickinson, Sugar and Spice and Fragrant Dream will need to be spaced out in the future probably, but until then...Thanks for looking!

Cheers,

Don B.

River Crossroads, welcome to the forum, I really like the flowers on your Abiqua Ambrosia, haven't seen 'em before.

Don B.

A few of my fragrants. I probably have at least a dozen ROYAL STANDARD. Sure smells wonderful when they are all in bloom

1. FRAGRANT BLUE

   

   FRAGRANT BOUQUET

   

   FRIED BANANAS

   

   GUACAMOLE

   

   INVINCIBLE

   

   STAINED GLASS

   

   SWEET INOCENCE

   

   ROYAL STANDARD

Really enjoying these beautiful photos. Don - Your fragrant garden is really going to be sweet this year. On another note, I really couldn't discern any aroma from my Ginsu Knife - and I put my nose to the petals.

Same here with my neighbor's Ginsu Knife, DD, I couldn't detect any scent. Absolutely beautiful plant, though. I'd buy one for sure.

Thanks for the compliments!

Sunnywood, great pics. Are these pics from both NY and Colorado, or just NY?

Don B.

Your Guacamole is HUGE, DD!

It's a Guacamole bush, Don!

Whoa! Don, you're right out the gate ... Look at all them Fragrants!!!

All these photos show such beautiful hostas and most but for mine, mature! A large hosta is surely something to behold!...with scent, unbeatable! I'm tickled to have more than a couple up my garden......And I don't miss many opportunities to keep thanking Don B. and MoccasinLanding for introducing me to them! :-)

SO SWEET

Irish Luck

Fragrant Queen

FRAGRANT BOUQUET

DIANA REMEMBERED

Those plants are in New York . I don't have many pictures of my Colorado Hostas. I plan to take some this year if the hail storms go somewhere else.

Fragrants do well in warmer areas, so I have many. My favorite hosta is So Sweet. It's a performer for me. It always looks good. It comes up early and stays nice and compact for 6 months of growing season. This one is due dividing, as the pot is full. It's hard to cut it up, though, as it's so pretty.

This one is an oldie, but not very common. It does well here in the heat. This is Sugar and Cream with Guacamole in the background and So Sweet #2 to the right.

don_in_colorado, thanks for your welcome & your comments. You've got some beautiful looking plants.

Fragrant Fire

Great pics on a great thread, everyone. We seem to be missing the prescence of a certain forum favorite, also a big fragrant hosta enthusiast...I know she's been very busy with home projects...hopeful she can add some pics of her fantastic "collection" at her earliest convenience : )

Don B.

Your Sugar and Cream looks awesome, BKay!

Calling Mocc!!!! I don't envy her remodel - hope she surfaces long enough to add her Fragrants :-) I really love this category...it's very heady.

Don, I'm thinking I need to gather more Fragrants together, like you did, in order to get the most impact when they are in bloom.

Jo, no joke, besides looking nice, the fragrant blossoms, when I stand anywhere in that area of my backyard, are very easy to smell. Can't miss 'em : )

You guys must have better smellers than me. I have to get right on top of them to smell them.

Thanks, Don. That photo is from 2013 actually. It was knocked back by the dry winter and cold spring last year, too. Few of mine looked as good in 2014 as they did in 2013. Francee and Striptease are the only two survivors I can think of that weren't either smaller or freeze damaged last year.

bk

I'm with bkay2000, I didn't even know there were fragrants until a couple years ago and still can hardly detect them. I had to look them up in Don Rawson's list.

Honeybells

Holy Mole

So Sweet

The following three are all first year plants so will have to put the sniffer to work next year.

Sweet Innocence

Secret Love

Sweet Sunshine

bkay, I'm in love with your Sugar and Cream. That's a real beauty and looks super healthy, too.

It's the number one hosta grown here. Somewhere I have a photo taken with my phone of it used in a landscape. I'll see if I can find it.

bk

Found it. This is all Sugar and Cream.

That looks nice.

Wow, that's really pretty! Love the white brick work, too; makes a great contrast to the green yet ties in nicely with SAC's white edge.

We're geologically an old ocean. Mostly, if you dig down 10 or twenty feet, you reach limestone or some kind of porous white/gray stone. So white stone is used extensively in our landscapes. It's cheap, easy to find and looks totally natural to those of us who live here. It's kind of like the stones that get heaved in Hosta Hillbilly's neighborhood, they fit..

Only one nursery has sold hosta in Dallas more than a few years. They've always sold Sugar and Cream forever, which has always done well in trials around here. Landscape designers use it, as it's foolproof. I would not currently recommend the nursery, as they buy hosta from the wholesale nursery, Green Lake Nurseries, in Seagoville, that was still selling (2014) HVX infected hostas a year after being informed of their HVX problem.

I think we should try So Sweet as a landscape plant here. It's more compact and holds up well. It should be included in any trial here.

bk

I also must confess that I don't ever smell the fragrants unless I stick my nose down into them, and I think that I have a good sense of smell. Grouping them together seems like a smart idea.

I can't detect a fragrance on any of the ones described as "lightly scented flowers" like Fragrant Blue or it's sports, or Ginsu Knife and several others. But, Fragrant Bouquet, Guacamole, Fried Bananas, Fried Green Tomatoes, pretty much the rest of the Guacamole sports I have are strongly scented to me. Everyone's sniffer is different, I guess. To me, they smell like Pez (that old candy that has all those different style dispensers).

Don B.

Bumped so Mocc doesn't miss this one... : )

DON THANK YOU SO MUCH... I missed the whole thread for sure. And I see it is best to start at the top and try to reach the bottom.

And Don, I think you previously mntioned PEZ candies, which I looked up and then ordered a bag/box of. My goodness, fella, my hosta don't smell that much! However, on a late summer afternoon approaching 6pm or maybe 7pm, you can catch the beginning of the fragrance as the major fragrant players begin to open for the evening. I sat in the garden several times last year from that time until full dark. I even took photos of Doubled Up and Mama as they both had blooms opening the same nights. Not good photography, but indeed they are night bloomers. So the scent is stronger in the evening, and less so the next morning. I'll have to cluster my Guac family together a bit more....to see if they share a common aroma.

I'm headed for bed early these days....hope this house remodel is over before the hosta awaken.