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What are the strongest scented flowers in your yard?

 
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Ok. this is just flat funny.
I was ordering some stuff off a site this morning, saw they had Sambac Jasmine plants, and impulsively ordered one to grow in the house. Clicked back to my emails after placing the order, and the daily had this thread in it :)
I can't put it outside here, but I have other plants that live in the house that it can join. I'm in zone 6 with cold north wind, tropicals don't stand a chance in the winter.  Rosa Rugosa will probably do ok here though, and I plan to get some. I think Hansa is gorgeous, and it says smells very strong!




 
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Lindy Oconnor wrote:Everyone can laugh, but I have a horseradish plant covered in clusters of little white flowers. Heavenly, delicate fragrance.


Reminds me of the surprise I got from BITTERMELLON blossoms. Such a nice smell from such a nasty fruit.
Also MILKWEED smells great.
Does anyone know what OKRA blossoms smell like? They are so pretty.
 
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Night blooming jasmine for me right now. And I'm surprised by the scent of the pumpkin flowers!  My black locust is done for the year but it smells lovely from 50 feet away!

I used to have some heirloom roses that were like smelling a spicy honey! And I am told the wv property is covered in honeysuckle!
 
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Nicotiana a.k.a. as flowering tobacco has been blooming since beginning of May. Jasmine- like scent. Blooms open evenings into early morning - longer when it's cloudy. I planted these in a mulch basin and  it took two years for them to become the size of hydrangea bushes with a cloud of white flowers. They made it through a ten-week heat wave last year and a couple of hard frosts (about 24 degrees)  without protection. Worth the wait!

Photo shows some of the flowers still open at midday.

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Kim Goodwin wrote:
Some people here in the desert SW advocated killing the tomato hornworms to "lower their population".  We've moved them and we had far fewer on the tomatoes the next year.  Our other friends who kill them still complain they get a lot of them.



Now I need to get some datura.  I've never grown it because it's so ridiculously poisonous, but it's also soooo pretty!
 
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Personally I'm a big fan of poisonous plants, not much can eat them. My non-fenced gardens contain lots of poisonous plants like foxgloves, nicotiana, bleeding heart(botanical name has recently changed used to be dicentra), and rely otherwise heavily on bulbs and herbaceous perennials as most of our deer damage is in the fall when all else is dead. I've always been told you can't grow any garden plants here without fencing well I think I'm doing pretty well.
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