Comments on: Can you smell that?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:44:34 +0000

Linden is hands down one of my all-time favorites. So great.

It’s such a good fragrance I find it a little upsetting that Gail can’t smell it. -kris

By: Nell Jean

Nell Jean — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:59:00 +0000

My experience is that the widest open night blooming Cereus blooms are around 10:30 or 11pm. You can tell in late afternoon that they are going to open that night and the wait is suspenseful. When the weather gets cool here and I move them into the greenhouse, sometimes there is an October bloom or two. Those will still be open early the next morning. Summer blooms outside are gone when I rise in the morning.

I just moved my epis to the carport from farther away so I won’t forget to water on these scorching days — I’ve already lost some little buds. Some are just a few days away from bloom.

Nell Jean, I can’t believe I missed the third bloom – I thought for sure looking at it that it was another day away. And I think it must be because our mornings were cool and gray that they were still open when I got up. (Though some might consider 5:30ish nighttime still.) -kris

By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:24:40 +0000

i have a jasmine (not the ground cover variety) potted up on the back porch, and it smells heavenly morning and night. i also have a night blooming cereus but it has yet to bloom for me – reading the reaction to yours blooming, i’m looking forward to it!

mmmmm jasmine! I can’t seem to keep my plant alive/blooming… -kris

By: Layanee

Layanee — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:41:43 +0000

I am catching the scent of the heliotrope and also the climbing rose. I remember the scent of the Lindens although I don’t have any. Sweet peas are heavenly and I am coming to sniff yours!

Layanee, I’ll send you home with another bouquet! See you soon? -kris

By: Blackswampgirl Kim

Blackswampgirl Kim — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:09:56 +0000

I keep thinking that I smell catalpa flowers when I’m walking under the leaves… but then when I sniff an individual flower, I get nothing. Maybe I’m getting the basswood (linden) trees instead, though, since we have a lot of those on our street. Those seem more sweetly scented in the evening, too, but I think that’s just for lack of other competing smells in my urban yard. (In other words, no car exhaust, or neighbors’ dinners to compete with the flower scent.)

‘Sweet Juliet’ is indeed a pretty rose. I keep thinking that I should add a scented climber to my yard…

Kim, Michael Dirr claims to have detected a slight fragrance on a catalpa in Boston… But I’d put my money on the lindens in your neighborhood – and yeah a calm evening/morning is probably when they’re at their best. ‘Sweet Juliet’ isn’t a climber (or at least that’s not how we have it trained). You and I need to get the name of Layanee’s rose… -kris