Re: scent, boxwood, privet, Brussels sprouts
- Subject: Re: scent, boxwood, privet, Brussels sprouts
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:53:02 -0400
Claire, must be that you just don't have the hot, humid nights of the
south, which really bring out the scent in boxwoods. Actually, you
can smell them from some distance during summer days here, too.
I don't have anything against Privet except the smell of its flowers.
I have that gold leaf variety...has a name, I know, but can't recall.
If I keep it pruned back (which you have to several times a season
if you want a compact plant) then I generally am able to avoid the
flowers.
Brussels sprouts do have a scent, to me, in the garden...not when
purchased in the store. It's a cabbagy sort of scent. Broccoli has
it, too. Since I am fond of both of these veggies, it is not
unpleasant to me. Now, overcooked Brussels sprouts do develop an
unpleasant odor, IMO.
The only time I ever found growing plants of Brussels sprouts with an
unpleasant odor was the year I followed some instructions, read in
some organic tome, to sprinkle them with flour to get rid of the
caterpillars that love them so. Well, you never saw such a mess. It
all turned black and got rancid with a very peculiar Brussels sprout
odor mixed with Lord only knows what and was an icky, terrible, awful
disaster that ended up in the compost heap and did not deter the
caterpillars one bit. So much for believing what you read:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: ECPep@aol.com
>
> This is a surprise. I don't know that I ever noticed that boxwood
had any
> aroma, must be too cold here for it to perform. I should know, I
have over
> twenty of them growing around here and there including one we are
not
> clipping just to see how large it will grow. Privet is so
maligned, poor
> ole' plant, nobody really likes privet. There are evergreen forms
that are
> not so bad but only one grows here. Nobody plants it anymore
because nobody
> grows hedges anymore.
>
> BTW, boxwood is dead easy from cuttings so you can use the
trimmings to make
> dozens more plants.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
>
>
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