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Thread #109550   Message #2292374
Posted By: open mike
19-Mar-08 - 02:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: Favourite Scented Flowers
Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Scented Flowers
the Daphnia near my house fairly make me swoon when they bloom and their fragrance is at its height.

i do like paper white narcissus and the smell of Bells of Ireland..
it is a peppery spicey smell, not like flowers at all, but one of my favorites.

I have several varieties of Lavendar in my garden..it is lovely!

I also love star jasmine, and gardenia and double delight roses , too!

when i was a student of horticulture we took a field trip to visit a
doctor of botany (or some such) and she explained to us how she had been hired to experiment on how to breed the color and the fragrance OUT of flowers, specifically marigolds. She was developing a white, fragrance-free varitey of marigold. One of the characteristics of marigolds is that they will discourage nematodes from your garden by their smell. But it does seem that modern varieties are often devoid of fragrance, especially roses...(a rose by any other name would SMELL
the same....they are presumed to be fragrant)