Tuesday, May 02, 2006

For Urban

Hands sounds like BP. He thinks all flowers should smell nice.

Check around the nursery, but also check out what your neighbors plant.

My Favorite Smell-gooders:
Lavender
Dianthus (pinks)
Nicociana (Flowering tobacco)
Heliotrope (smells like vanilla)
Lillies
Roses
Herbs
Allyssum

Spring bulbs:
hyacinths
Daffodils
Tulips
Lilac bushes

7 comments:

Jenny Robin said...

not all flowers smell nice?

UrbanStarGazer said...

Cool! Thanks!!

Meme said...

I like Alysum,honeysuckle and Heliotrope too the smell of lavender makes me feel ill :(

The Broards said...

Respighi,
Believe it or not, no. Not all flowers have a scent. And some pretty flowers smell GROSS (cleome)
It depends on how/what pollinates them.

Meme,
I agree about the honeysuckle--love the scent--, but her in Indiana it's classified as a noxious weed and it spreads where you don't want it to spread (kind of like blu's ass.)

Brenda said...

i love the smell of lilacs and have a bush out in the back yard. i love lavender too and have a plant that is struggling to make a comeback.
so what the hell pollinates cleome emma? flies perhaps, does it smell shitty?

Anonymous said...

I find flowers boring precisely because I can't smell them.

UrbanStarGazer said...

Kath -- But they look pretty!