I went back in this forum and there was a long thread on fragrance in all plants inside and out. I would still appreciate any indoor specific plants you may especially love. Just added night blooming jasmine and begonia solananthera!

Ordphien, Wow, really! NBJ scents 3 blocks? I was in LA a few years ago and asked what that scent was wafting and they told me NBJ. So the wafted fragrance might be different from one trapped in a house? How does the scent compare to MOO? I find that to be ok but nothing that sends me to fragrance heaven like roses, lilies and some orchids. I guess I like sweet scents.

Being in PA, I have T-5 lights in my house everywhere. My son says it looks like a surgical center in here. Lol! So maybe the coconut orchid would work. Any good sources?

I started all of this with orchids 25 years ago. I moved here 13 years ago and never quite got the fan/humidifer set up the way the cattleyas liked it at my old house. I lost a bunch but still have 10 or so doing ok. I just binned two to make room for the gardenia and brassavola in one light rack. Do you have any really fragrant suggestions other than catts that are less picky?

I won't buy tiny orchids anymore but I also don't want to spend cattleya prices + crazy shipping for the large plants. If I get anymore cattleyas it will likely be from a somewhat local nursery 1.5 hours away. What did you have in mind?

Terri

Aglaia odorata blooms almost constantly for me. I don't have to stick my nose in to smell it because when it blooms there are a hundreds of tiny rocaille-like flowers on it. It has a lemony scent to it IMO.

One Hoya that blooms very often is Hoya bella, but I can't seem to smell anything from it. Some people do however.

Thanks, Dar. Are you growing aglaia odorata in side or out?

Some to consider:
Murraya paniculata, Hoya obscura, Hoya lacunosa, Sansevieria parva, Narcissus tazetta v. orientalis, Calathea concinna, Polianthes tuberosa 'Mexican Single', Petunia multiflora 'Old Fashioned Vining', Jasminum polyanthum (though it requires cool temps to set buds. I normally buy it in bud/bloom from a nursery and enjoy it indoors while it's blooming), hyacinth bulbs, Brunfelsia gigantea or B. jamaicensis, and lastly I'll recommend Chloranthus spicatus which I can send some cuttings to you if you like. :)

Robert, I would love to try Chloranthus spicatus. Will be grow in the house?

How do I get my address to you?

I grow mine under the filtered sun of the arbor outside when it's warm and grow them under T5 lights indoors over the winter.
You should be able to email me your address by clicking on my profile.

Robert, I can't figure out how to contact you. Can you help me please?

Okay. I changed my account settings to let anyone email me. I don't know how long it takes to show on Houzz.

When it's updated you click on my profile -

http://www.houzz.com/user/fragrantgrower

On the right side under the Facebook, Twitter and Google icons you should see a white box that says Message. You click on that to send me an email.

Hope this works for you!

Robert, I just sent you the info!

I have to get a coconut orchid next I think...

Ordphien, Do you sell blooming size coconut orchids?

Just ordered brunfelsia Lady of the Night from Accents. I always use Logee's so I hope I will not be disappointed.

I've never smelled Brunfelsia americana. I've read it has more of a pronounced clove like scent than B. gigantea. Gigantea also has a clove like scent but to me has more perfume mixed in (I'm comparing it to B. lactea and B. nitida). I can also detect a light perfume scent from gigantea during the day if I stick my nose to the bloom.

Yes. There are lots of nocturnally fragrant white brunfelsias. :)

I've ordered lots of plants from Pepper's Greenhouses (Accents). They're normally small but healthy plants.

Thanks, Robert. I just added a few to my cart! What about Hoyas? Any really wafting hoyas?

Nevermind. Logee's says "Highly susceptible to mealybugs." I am trying to stay away from those types of plants.

Terri....Robert names all the ones that I was going to name..He's 100% correct! My house never has a day that does not smell good.

I think you should try a couple of citrus if you have the sunny windows for them. They are awesome for filling a room with even if just one bud opens.

My most favorite are Hoya...I never have an issue with mealy or any other bug...I have many that stay nice and small and full of flowers! They smell so good once the end of summer rolls in. They fill a room with the smell of chocolate, vanilla, spice and many other ones.

Have you ever tried a 'Sweet Sherri Baby"" oncidium? So EASY to grow,,I have many of these! They always in bloom any time of the year because I have more than one... I have one in bllom and naother two about to open up!

You also might wamt to try 'fragrant phals:..So easy to grow and take up such little room on any window sill. They only require morning or late after noon sun and then in summer, they love to be under a tree for bright light or left in the home.

Just a few)

Thanks, Mikerno. I bet your house smells great! Sweet Sherry Baby says it smells like chocolate.

I have been debating adding citrus. I need to see how much room my plumerias will take up when I bring them inside but Citrus are a definite!

Any recommendations for fragrant phals that fill a room?

Thanks!

Terri

I can get you a few names..They smell heavenly..One flower can waff and entire room! They are one of my favorite take no room plants...

Why not put your plumeria to rest, lket them defoliate and hold them over in a dry dark location, like basemenet since they are for sure spider mite magnets and use that space for a lemon meyer or orange tree..You can get small grafted on on those on cuttings..)

Mikerno, I am not resting the plumerias because I just bought all but 1 this summer. I did not want them to leaf out well and then put them to sleep right away. One has an inflo I hope will bloom. I am in PA. We are having mid 80's during the day and 50's at night. Not sure how many more weeks of "summer" there will be. What do you do with yours?

Please do pass along some fragrant phals. I have Bright Peacock Sweet Fragrance coming already...

I love hoyad for fragrance but I had a hard time keeping bugs off of my carnosa. Orchids can have some amazing fragrances! I have a neofinitia falcata that has bloomed twice now in the past 4 months. It smells just like vanilla. I have brassavola nodosa that is budding up. I've heard it smells great but have yet to smell it. I'm a plumeria fan and I have had my Dwarf Singapore Pink bloom under fluorescents and it smelled just like a red rose. My GDT jasmine blooms in my kitchen window and there it only gets bright morning light.

I need to find thisSherry Baby orchid! I've heard Mike brag about it many times. I also think citrus is great for fragrance. My favs are the Oro Blanco grapefruit and the Meyer lemon.

Andrew, I just bought Sweet Sharry Baby and the coconut orchid from Fantasy Orchids!

Thanks for the tips!!!

Terri, I would keep my Plumeria growing until the cold, NOT FROST starting making the leaves look like crap, then I would cut them all off and rest them, let them go dormant. Then I threw them out because I got tired of bugs, and the extra lon time it would take for me to put them in hot full sun. Those plants are meant for araes with a long summer and lots of sun(. I missed that train(

When you say Coconut orchid, do you mean Maxillara?

Mikerno, A lot of us Northern folks give up on plumerias. Well, I have 15. I love tropical plants, fragrance and will never get to Hawaii so this is as close as it gets! I will spray them monthly with Bayer 3 in 1. I don't spray anything ever even outside but I will for these. I will grow them under T-5 lights all Winter and put them out in Spring, let them grow the Summer and go dormant next Winter after they have grown. Maybe I will bin them. Who knows? But I have to try. At least I have to see if I can get any of them to bloom. I have one with a large inflo now so this will be the first test. I grew my first plumeria two years now. It did well inside last Winter with AM sun and T-5 lights coming from the racks next to it. I sprayed and had no bugs.

Coconut orchid = Maxillara, yes! Have you grown them? Like or not?

Hi Terri. As far as plumeria go, you can do what Mike suggested. The only thing I will add, don't cut off the leaf completely. Let them stem that the leaf is attached to, drop on its own. Your tree will be happier for it. Also, I used to say that you can store your tree in complete darkness, as long as it is dry. Otherwise, you may end up with rot issue. For the past 4 or 5 years, I keep them in a basement that has Windows. My more rare and expensive varieties stay under lights in my apartment. Oncem I started treating them like this, I had much more blooming.

I ca, see Mike's point though. It's hard giving your plumeria precious space under lights when you have citrus, and other tropicals that would perform much better if they were under lights. This is why I bought myself another HPS light, and I also bouts 3 tiered shelf and florescents for all my African violets. Now all my light needy Tropicals can have there own space.

Andrew, What kind of lights do you use for plumeria? What do you use the HPS light for? Thanks so much for your help.

Does anyone know where this conversation has moved to? Where I can go to find a discussion on fragrant plants?

I have a foot-and-a-half tall night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) currently perfuming the indoors. The parent plant has had waves of flowering in a tub outdoors, reaching eight feet in height and spreading fragrance 75 feet away. There's no better indoor/temperennial plant for powerful scent.

https://rustyblackhaw.substack.com/p/plant-portrait-cestrum-nocturnum