July, 2019 fragrant flowers, please, let's see them!
Anything flowering for you this month that would knock your shoes off, or one that you just love walking by? Any that you prize or that make you feel good? Please, share what you have flowering for us that smells good.
Thank you
Here are a few of mine.
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Meyermike(Zone 6a Ma.)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoMilk weed with a very powerful fragrance which does attract butterflies
Micehlia Alba, deep clean fragrance that whaffs the whole area up.
African Gardenia very potent
nanzjade z5 MA
4 years agoHey Mike! Awesome plants and blooms you have there!!!
First two pics are Hoya Fitchii, it smells like clove spiced cookies out of the oven that are all toasty lol. It’s a one cutting starter plant that surprised me that it bloomed so soon.
Third pic is a small leaf Hoya that you gave me cuttings of last year :) I really love this one, really cute little dark leaves.
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Comments (9)Elkay! Are they easy to care for in the winter? If so, I would like to try one. Do they drop their leaves and if so thank God, because I hear spider mites love these plants. Your plants are so pretty and must smell devine! Jodik...I must say that Orchids are my favorites next to Citrus. You never know what you are going to get, and the fragrance is breath taking on everyone of them. I can't wait to see the blooms and smell. Thanks again for your appreciated and very kind comments. It means a lot! Yes, the African Gardenia is one of the best plants anyoen could own. They are easy to grow if grown in a very porous mix and kept warm. Humidity not required and that's it! They flower continually all year. It has never been out of bloom since I have had it. This is a keeper! It smells heavenly! Thank you Jodik:-))) Jojo, same to you! Looks like you love the same plant Jodik does..lol You know, come the spring, I can always start cuttings from this plant if anyone is brave enough to give it a shot. They are even easier than growing Violets fo me. Have a great night all!:-)...See MoreJuly 2017 Pics!! Let's see them everyone)))
Comments (136)So many wonderful pictures to look at! I wish there was a "love" button that we could push. ♡ Amanda, beautiful pic of your son and the Hibiscus. Your citrus are doing splendid this summer. John, love the barred owl. Beautiful picture. Evan, I am always in awe of your trees and all of the fruitful varieties that you have! Your key lime is so productive! Wow! Have the Pomona Sweet Lemon and the Cocktail Grapefruit produced decent, edible fruit for you yet? I have a young Pomona, but am still waiting (since last season) for a mailing nursery to get the Cocktail back in stock. I hope the Oro Blanco fruit taste much better for you this time around. Brian, I love your "tropical" paradise! Just lovely! Perfection! Mike and Brian, we have had a number of nights that have been down into the forties ! July sure feels more like fall. What's up with that?? Lol..The only good thing about it is that the cool nights helped my Santa Teresa Lemons set some flowering buds. I hope to get some lemons that stay on and mature this time around. The cooler weather has not been good for my tomatoes. I usually have ripe tomatoes by this time and my garden tomatoes are still small and green. Mike, what a stunning orchid! I am so happy for you that it finally bloomed after three years! Well worth the wait. :) Laura, Kevin the key lime looks great in his new pot! I look forward to the key lime pie pictures in the near future, I do not envy you getting him to fit back in the house this fall though.. :D We had some rain showers earlier in the week but I was able to fertilize all of the trees on Friday. Rain in the forecast for tomorrow evening!...See MoreFragrant flowers for February, 2019! What do you have to show us?
Comments (12)Sabut, the Michelia lives in this room: It is a nook, off the kitchen. The window faces west, and directly across is an east facing window which looks onto a patio. Neither window is particularly bright because of trees, thus the lights. The two fixtures are for the benefit of a stephanotis and Arabian jasmine (Monrovia's 'Summer Soul'). The light bathing the room comes from two 300w equivalent LED daylight spectrum floodlights in the ceiling, which are on from 7AM to 11PM, or when I go to bed. To the left of the alba is a Michelia champaca, which I hope to use as an understock for blooming age champaca wood. I'm on the hunt for a tree on Maui to collect from. If I can't find one, I'll use it as understock for the alba. At the bottom of the picture you can see a few leaves of another alba which is getting busy, too. And at the extreme left are a few leaves of a dwarf Singapore Pink plumeria. Between the fan and the alba on the table are some small bottles. They are essential oils of Michelia champaca, Michelia x alba, alba leaf (an amazeballs fragrance in its own right), ylang-ylang, and Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum). They are my "binkies" when the real deals aren't available. The essential oils help a lot. But there is a difference between sniffing the oil and sniffing the flower. It's like seeing an outfit on a mannequin, and seeing the outfit on a real person. There is a lack of 'soul'. But back to the question you posed about encouraging bloom. These plants haven't a clue what month it really is. To them, with 17 hour days, it's June!...See MorePlease, let's see your light set ups for winter 2019!
Comments (8)I am not a member of AOS and cannot access the magazine. So, I googled the author and found this piece, which covers a lot of technical aspects of LED growlights. I like the discussion of technical terms, such as PAR, PPF and DLI, which more accurately define the light used by plants. I also like how she mentions that cattleyas can require twice as much DLI as phalaenopsis or paphiopedilums do to flower. For an affordable LED growlight, I recently came across this YouTube video that demos Mars Hydro TS 600W, which has very good reviews on Amazon, for vandas. Like many 2019 LED growlights, it has a warmer glow, unlike the cold fluorescent or blurple that older LED technologies emit. I don’t have a Mars Hydro, but I do own a few growlights from Fluence and HLG that use similar spectra. I find the warm, sun-like glow to be very pleasant. Last winter, my growlights did a great job helping my jasmines and camellias bloom indoors. I recently bought 20+ cattleyas and dendrobiums, and we will see how they do under the lights this winter....See MoreMeyermike(Zone 6a Ma.)
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Maggie (Vancouver, BC 8a)
4 years agoI haven’t had a chance to check in lately so I’ve spent a bit of time going through all the great photos. All those citrus shots inspired me, and I’m thinking of getting some Buddha’s Hand seeds - this plant is very intriguing!
Mike, your pond is making me very jealous. It’s been a dream from many many years ago, that I put aside because it seemed like too much of a project. Also I would want to put in fish (I have both fresh and saltwater tanks) and that would mean another war with the dang raccoons. Sigh.
Here’s a couple of new blooms in my garden...
My first brugmansia; finally got one after admiring Robert’s beautiful plants. It’s a ‘Charles Grimaldi’:
Jasmine looks lovely entwined with the climbing rose ‘Teasing Georgia’
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4 years agoMaggie (Vancouver, BC 8a)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoDon’t laugh but last night I couldn’t fall asleep because I was plotting the installation of a small pond lol.
Here’s the queen of my garden. Southern magnolia ‘St Mary.’ She is magnificent.
tom_d1026
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoHello everyone! I haven't posted for what seems like an eternity. I missed this forum and all of you and your lovely pictures! Here are my July bloomers:
Hoya pubicalyx 'Royal Hawaiian Purple' - typical pubicalyx scent like chocolate or syrup but with a chemical note. I'm not fond of it.
Hoya lacunosa 'Ruby Sue' - sweet almond scent at night
Blc. Waianae Leopard 'Ching Hua' - lemongrass or citronella scent with cotton candy and rubber. Interesting scent. Flower spike buckled under its own weight, basically snapped in half but was still alive.
NOID Brugmansia versicolor - lightly fragrant of lemon powder at night. Should be much more fragrant. Still a gorgeous flower. I'm just happy it's blooming after struggling in the ground for two years, after stalling growth from high heat and suffering partial dieback from a freeze two winters ago. I almost ripped it up and I'm so glad I didn't!
Meyermike(Zone 6a Ma.)
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James _J
4 years agoWas away last week and came home to some flowers that opened while I was away. Which is nice since I was afraid I was going to come home to a bunch of dead plants.
No ID Dendrobium
Dendrobium ”love memory fiz” - candy scented. (Mike this is the mother plant of the one I sent you)
Dendrobium auriculatum - rose scented
Oncidium “sharry baby”
Jasmine sumbac
Stephanotis
Brunfelsia
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Fragrant Catus. tiny thng that grows huge flowers
Gardenia
Fragrant Water Lilly
Variegated fragrant Water Lilly
Asiatic Lillies
Gardenia tahitensis
Asiatic Lillies
Citrus blossom
Laura LaRosa (7b)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
I cut these today from my new rose bushes. The heat here has been so intense and the sun so hot that the petals burn up on the plant . I cut these early this morning before they could suffer too much damage. Strange to think that they will last longer in a vase than on the plant, but in this heat, it is the case.
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