Roses whose fragrance wafts
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Comments (8)Thank you, Diane for the article. I read it, very interesting. Soil chemistry plays a role. Here' a comment from HMF by Michael in Fremont, CA: "I should've updated my experience with Shocking Blue. It is not a strong grower and the flowers are disappointing...the scent is NOT pure lemon, only slight to moderate. I suspect that it doesn't like the alkaline soil here. I've found that my favorite roses in MA/MD smell different here, and not for the better. They have more of an anise/black licorice undertone (like Yves Piaget), although on the plus side, the fruity roses which I don't care for, smell better/sweeter. Like the rose, Secret (white shaded pink at edges) which in MA/MD had a hint of fruitiness, here is pure sweet, and one of my top all time picks for Fremont, CA - ridiculously strong grower, disease resistant, moderately shiny leaves, beautiful form & great scent. I haven't found a lavender I like as much. Memorial Day comes closest, scent is lovely, but the pale lavender (a litttle too pale for my ideal) fades to almost blush pink/white as the flower opens. On the other hand, if you like bicolors, Sheila's Perfume (yellow-peach edged pink) is my other top pick for Fremont. Also ridiculously strong grower, shiny leaves, disease resistant, great hybrid tea-like form, flowers like crazy and scent to die for. Hope that helps, take care, Mich (aka Michifur) ** I agree with Michael from Fremont. My soil is alkaline clay, and the fruit scent is very strong. So is the myrrh scent in Mary Magdalene. Early spring I put too much acid fertilizer on Mary, its frankincense scent went away. Once I scraped off the fertilizer, and watered her with my tap water, pH of 8 - her scent came back. Unforunately the scent on Jacques Cartier is mediocre in my alkaline clay, so I gave him away (he's stingy here). Asiatic lily - the tall pink one smells good here, but not much scent for Campanula in England. Oriental lily (Stargazer) is wickedly strong, that I had to remove it from my front door. It was just too overwhelming. Hot temp. also make certain scent stronger. Niels from Denmark observed that when he visisted U.S. garden in hot summer, he was knocked off by the STRONG scent of The Prince and Jude the Obscure. Yes, at above 80's Jude Smelled GREAT at the rose park, but not this weekend at low 70's. In contrast, my Austin Wise Portia smells good only when the temp is below 70's and damp, same with Charles Darwin and Radio Times....See MoreWhat fragrances 'waft' for you?
Comments (20)I think the wafting part has to do some with the temperature, humidity, wind direction and the mass of the planting. my wastington hawthorne until about 2 years ago never amounted to much, but then all of a sudden i kept smelling this heavy 'vanilla' scent in the spring. Then when i was cutting the grass, i realized it was the hawthorne tree. I guess that must be the 'haw' scent that i've read about. next would be my milkweed. Its gets western exposure to the sun in mid august, and the scent can become overwhelming. I only let about 10 or 12 stalks grown and pull the rest. my sweet autumn clematis has that wonderful fragrance. But i have had one that seemed scentless. Clethra has a scent, last year i was looking for a shrub to add to my 'fragrant'border. Clethra was highly recommended. If you bush is large enough it will scent a large area. For me it has a very musky undertone that tends to turn my stomach. I have about 15 hosta plantagina that are divisions- in the first year i had 65 flower stems in a 20x20 foot area. In the august heat and humidity you could smell them 50-75 feet away. A neighbor 3 doors away had a group of 3 huge mock orange that on sunny afternoons i can smell-- that's about 100-150 feet. Love the scent of black locust another area you haven't considered are herbs--the scent is usually localized. but mints & thymes can make a great deal of odor when used on a walk way. diggerb...See MoreNight time wafting fragrance
Comments (11)Butterfly, your post reminded me of another option I had forgotten about--wild clematis, Clematis virginiana, called virgin's bower. It's a good substitute for honesuckle although it blooms in Aug. not June. My cousin has it growing on the trellis, and my neighbor has it growing up against a fence. I don't know where I can find it to buy, but maybe my neighbor will let me take cuttings. I tried to sprout some cuttings of my cousin's plant but it didn't work. I know what you mean about honeysuckle, it does smell fabulous--many of my summer memories are of "honeysuckle days." But I work in the natural resources field and I have spent too much time of my life hacking the stuff off of trees I was trying to get going and wading through it in the forests, to ever willingly plant it! Same goes for russian olive! Your yard is a clone of mine Butterfly! Row house, narrow yard, ugly chain link fence, neighbors with decks looking down on me!! I'm doing pretty good at hiding the chain link fence, except in this one area I'm talking about. I also need to hide my compost bin, or distract people's eyes from its big ugly blackness. What can I say, it was free from the city and I have a limited income!...See MoreI have a rose that wafts!!!!
Comments (35)My New Zealand, Marie Pavie and Felicia will waft when the conditions are right - i.e. cool and humid (my zone 10 cool is probably someone else's cold zone warm....) My Freesias really waft a great distance! (Not the rose Friesia but the bulbs Freesia). Other wafting fragrances - Cattleyas, Zygopetalums, Softcane Dendrobiums, Stanhopea, Cestrum, Hedychium, Honeysuckles, Brugmansias, Michelia, Lilium, Hyacinth, Heliotropes, Osmanthus, and I have just bought the Epiphyllum oxypetalum so hopefully will enjoy its fragrance the following summer/autumn. :)...See MoreRelated Professionals
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