RE: Scents/new "baby"
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Scents/new "baby"
- From: P* S*
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:07:38 -0800
My scent? At this time of year, winter daphne.... 'daphne odora.'
In the spring....... lilac. I dont' have a lilac bush, but there are
several huge, old ones in my neighborhood, and I plan my spring evening
walks so that I can bury my face in the lilac bushes as I wander by.....
Hey-- I am the proud parent of a bouncing baby Mantis tiller-- purchased
yesterday!! I have wanted one for a year or more, put it into the '99
budget, and got it yesterday. I tried it out for a few seconds and wow,
even with the yet-muddy ground, what a little workhorse!
Sue P.
"You play, you pay......"
> I was thinking this morning about the one scent that spurs me into a
> buying
> frenzy at a nursery, that epitomizes the onset of summer for me, and that
> is
> white alysum.
>
> I don't know what that is tied to in my past, but I always keep a solid
> row
> of it by my back door for that reason. It grows with a trachleosperum
> (star
> jasmine) and when the two are in bloom together, it about knocks you over
> as
> you approach (pleasantly).
>
> What scent does this for you and why? How do you incorporate it into your
> garden?
>
> Susan Saxton, zone 6b
>
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