Re: foetid plants

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I know what you mean, but consider this...plants really do not exist to please people...  some just please themselves!  Having lived in the southwest, you just gotta appreciate their spunk and pioneering spirit.  Granted, I happened upon my little biarum by accident-I wasn't out shopping for plants.  But one time I innocently purchased a fritillaria bulb and when it began to grow, my dog was the first to notice the odor.  She began putting her snout in the pot-I think she was trying to alert me to the offender.  The plant and flowers were beautiful, but when the frost got them last year I never replaced them!

Karen V. Athens

Paul Reid wrote:

When I was a teen, my father somehow acquired one of these arums that smells of rotting meat.  I found it disgusting.  When I lived in New Mexico, I had a wild vine in the cucurbitaceae that smelled like the worst smelly feet imaginable.  I did my best to eradicate it.  Am I the only plant lover out there who finds black phallic plants ugly, and when they smell like the sewer finds them disgusting?  I don't want them in my garden.  Sure, they might be "interesting" in the wild, but only in the academic sense.  I only plant roses that are fragrant, and have as many lovely smelling things in the garden as I can fit.  I flush things that smell like that arum; how could anyone want it near?Give me gardenias, lavender, heliotrope, and tuberose.Mind-boggled Karrie ReidFolsom GardenerP.S. I don't mean to be insulting, I am just truly baffled.