Re: still foetid

Kerrie
Your comment about Tuberose makes me smile.  Now that
I am here in Bali, and they are a favorite flower in
abundance at almost every hotel here in Ubud, I can
appreciate how fragrant they should be in the ideal
environment.  At home in cool and foggy summers like
those in Berkeley, California, they are a distinct
nonperformer, and I never understood what the hoopla
was about.  Here they are called "the fragrant night
flower", and the perfume is heavenly.  The
Plumeria/Frangipani are also everywhere at the moment,
and equally fragrant.  I think the extra humidity
seems to help carry the scent here, and the only thing
that seems to compare back at home is the Brugmansia
or Cestrum, as well as good old Jasminum polyanthum.

> To which I reply: Don't you get it? The gardenias
> were used to cover up the dead, rotting smell?  Your
> grandfather did a typical transference association
> of the gardenias with the dead smells, but I am sure
> if he had only encountered gardenias (or late in the
> summer, tuberoses)on a warm summer night as he
> walked up my walkway for a home-cooked meal and good
> conversation, he would adore the smell as my summer
> guests do.  I am not saying I want to be covered in
> this heavy sweetness, but I assure you my summer
> suppers would have a much different beginning for
> people if one of those black, phallic death arums
> were to greet them coming up the walk! LOL!
> Anyway, I DO understand their place as botanical
> curiosities in the wild or REMOTE corners of public
> collections, I just think masks ought to be issued!
> Oh well, anyone who knows me can tell you I'm
> especially smell sensitive, anyway.
> 
> Just ruffling feathers,
> Karrie Reid
> Folsom Fragrant Gardener
> 
> 
> 


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