Re: Re: gardenia buds!

That's so true!  No substitute for the real thing!

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea H
Sent: 5/6/2004 7:05:54 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] gardenia buds!

> It would probably be too cold in the winter, but the Gardenia radicans does
> pretty well as a house plant in a bright window. Give it a shot. it will
> fill the whole house with the scent and trust me, the real thing is a
> thousand times better smelling than any lotion, cream, or candle I've ever
> come across.
> 
> 
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "F M Ferrari" <fm4re@swbell.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] gardenia buds!
> 
> 
> > Gardenia! Yes a wonderful smell! The other day when I got my facial, she
> > used gardenia essential oil in my facial massage. I think I must get
> > one! I wonder how they do in Oklahoma? Fran
> >
> >
> > pdickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:Pam,
> > When I was in Houston last week my sister had 4 big plants and they were
> all
> > starting to bloom... in a couple of days I bet they were covered. I love
> > gardenias the very most of any scent. We have one that grows in the indoor
> > pool at the YMCA... I help them with the plants so I get to take a bloom
> and
> > put it in my pocket when they are blooming. The smell transports me to a
> > wonderful place!
> > Tricia
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From:
> > To:
> > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:44 PM
> > Subject: [CHAT] gardenia buds!
> >
> >
> > > #65279;Well the gardenia has buds on it now! It's a small one (Radicans)
> > in
> > > a
> > > pot, but it has at least ten or twelve buds on it! I'm so excited.
> > Mother
> > > had
> > > one as a houseplant that she started from a cutting in Richmond (where
> my
> > > brother
> > > &I were born) and by the time I was a teenager it totally filled the big
> > > double
> > > window in the front of the house. When it was blooming the whole
> > downstairs
> > > smelled
> > > like Heaven. I've wanted one ever since. Splurged on one this March. I
> > watch
> > > those
> > > buds fatten every every day now and it's the first thing I check besides
> > Sugar
> > > when
> > > I get home. This will give my homemade potpourri a whole new dimension,
> I
> > > can't
> > > wait!!
> > >
> > > Pam Evans
> > > Kemp, TX
> > > zone 8A
> > >
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