Your best smellers 2025!

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  1. Michael Hewett

    Michael Hewett Total Gardener

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    Interesting to know epiphytic cacti have a scent @pete ... I've never found any scent with mine and I've got several of them, but maybe it's just me that can't smell them.
     
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      I can't smell anything now unless my face is right next to the flower, so I don't choose plants for their scent. Having said that, I always grow sweet peas, because a decent bundle of them in the house is fine for me. Not usually any in flower until July here, but I have one or two which were from autumn sown, new seed, which issomething I rarely bother doing. They're further on simply due to the non winter and hot, dry spring.
      Ours last until October though, so -swings and roundabouts :)
       
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        I love the smell of pink carnations - that is when they had fragrant ones and when I saw a beautiful dianthus plant, a mature one, I had to buy it. The smell is really wonderful.

        I love the smell of my peonies and am careful not to sniff up an ant!

        And another vote for nicotiana, the white fragrant ones. :)
         
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          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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          Probably more like Epiphyllum I should have said, I have a giant bud on a queen of the night which will open soon,that is scented aswell.
           
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            Ah, I was thinking of Rhipsalis, although I've never found a scent with my Epiphylums either, except E laui, maybe my olfactory thingies are not very sensitive :smile:
             
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              Haven't had a chance to go round the garden yet so this is all I can do for my best smellers. :whistle:

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                pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                Whatever happened to @Trunky.
                 
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                He, more or less, stopped coming on regularly when he retired in 2019 but popped in occasionally but haven't seen him since covid. :dunno:
                 
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