My absolute fav Catt, Lc Purple Cascade 'Fragrant Beauty'. Also a very faithful, every year bloomer :)
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Here are a few from me in December :)

Vanda Paki only a slight fragrance so far this year

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cattleya white spark panda beautiful flowers and fragrance

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A unnamed cymbidium stronge fragrance but not to my taste

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Cattleya stronge fragrance very similar to cattleya burana beauty

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And finally my ylang ylang vine think i am loseing my first flower as you can see in the photo the base is going yellow maybe i over watered it :(

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P.s hope every one is well and has a good christmas :) very busy at work so not getting much time to log in :( still enjoying all your beautiful plants and flowers ;)

I had a couple holiday cactus pop into bloom, but I'm actually waiting on paperwhites (due in 2 weeks or so) and my new african gardenia (Mitriostigma axillare) should open within 2-3 weeks, or at least the buds are getting a lot bigger and turning white vs green. I hope I don't have to exile the mitriostigma to the laundry room, some people report the fragrance as too strong or even offensive.
Not fragrant, but I'm ready for my streptocarpus to pop back into bloom.

Ack! Just when I tell myself no more orchids I see these pics and want more! Laugh.
I think I have Catt, Lc Purple Cascade 'Fragrant Beauty' (it had no tag when I bought it a few years ago).
It bloomed for me last year but not this year so I'm hoping come spring I'll get some blooms. :)

Dbarron, starting bulbs is a great way to get us through winter! I bought some freesias discounted at HD and potted them up and have them on the steps leading to the basement. I'll bring them into the basement under the lights when I see above ground growth. Yesterday I bought some discounted bulbs at a local nursery, Angelique tulips and Dark Eyes grape hyacinth. I potted them in a pot together and hopefully come spring I'll be able to sniff them since both are supposed to be fragrant.

Please keep us posted on your thoughts on Mitriostigma axillare's scent. I've always been curious about that one.

The really sick thing is I've already started a 2015 wish list.
So far I only have 5 fragrant plants on it. :)

-Robert

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Beautiful everyone.
I have nearly nothing blooming.
But i have one gardenia blooming.

Despite several nights in the low 20's, my loquat blooms are unfazed and putting on a show this year (finally!). The entire back yard smells like very sweet baby powder.

Hey guys!!
I'm in the same busy phase still, but I try to catch up with your lovely blooms whenever I get the chance! I hope you all have a nice holiday, here is my last rose of the year; I found it hanging wind and rain battered on a long leafless stem the other day. Then there is also a coelogyne assamica that bloomed yesterday for the first time but I can't detect any scent yet, hopefully I can report back to prove me wrong!
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Lovely photos everyone :-)
dbarron, like Robert, I'm quite curious about Mitriostigma axillare.

Happy Holidays, everyone...

Well, I'm so far quite pleased by growth on the mitriostigma. To me the fragrance on the newly opened is much like orange blossoms, though as the blossoms progress toward senescence, it gets pungent (but not terribly unpleasant).

It sure is a blooming thing, every leaf axil produces small clusters. It's growth is pretty restrained though, it only has produced one flush of growth in the five weeks I've had it, all the blossoms opening now are older growth....but the new growth has it's tiny blossoms in the axils growing for their time too.

I have about seven blossoms open now on a 2 1/2 inch put and about eight inches high.

At least for me, I have to directly sniff the blossoms to notice them. Not like the paperwhites that are perfuming the entire laundry room.

Now in the moving chaos if I could just find my card reader, I could put up a photo...but alas, it's currently in the land of the lost.

Thanks dbarron for the update. Maybe the fragrance becomes more pronounced with the next flush.

I've never been wowed by the first flush of any potted plant. It's normally after the 2nd or 3 flush that I've been able to make an assessment....

Dang. Now I want to sniff a loquat and of course the mitriostigma.

The pictures are lovely. I hope everyone continues to share.

My Cymbidium 'Chen's Ruby' is finally opening and the scent is just as lovely as when it opens outside. I walked into the kitchen and caught a whiff of it from a couple of feet away...of course most of the times I have to put my nose close to enjoy the scent.

-Robert

Yay! The coelogyne assamica is fragrant after the second day!!! A cool flowery vanilla and smth bitter, love it!!!

Yay! Congrats, Fenius!

It's currently 56 outside and I'm enjoying sniffing a lone Jasminum grandiflorum bloom.:)

-Robert

My Viola odorata 'Duchesse de Parme' continues to bloom.The scent is strongest when it's warm outside.
-Robert

Hey Robert...JUst stopping by to say hello and that I hope everything is ok...

I have been caring for my parents and hanging around just one forum, the Citrus one, but plan on being back to help you keep this forum alive...You are doing a great job and thank you for all your help and beautiful pics...In fact, thanks to everyone here for sharing such beautiful plants)

Here is a couple of mine)

CATTLEYA..OF COURSE TO ME THEY ALL SMELL THE SAME.

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A few other orchids I shot today)

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Mike

Hey Robert...JUst stopping by to say hello and that I hope everything is ok...

I have been caring for my parents and hanging around just one forum, the Citrus one, but plan on being back to help you keep this forum alive...You are doing a great job and thank you for all your help and beautiful pics...In fact, thanks to everyone here for sharing such beautiful plants)

Here is a couple of mine)

CATTLEYA..OF COURSE TO ME THEY ALL SMELL THE SAME.

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A few other orchids I shot today)

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Mike

Beautiful pics, Mike!
Thank you for sharing them.

My probable Epiphyllum 'Fruhlings Gold' has another round of blooms for me to sniff.

Hoping everyone has a wonderful new year!

-Robert

Wow Robert!

That's a beauty..I have absolutely no luck with any of these..I just don't get enough sun to bother...

I wish I could smell one of these...Nice job...How are the Plumies holding up?

Mike

I hope someday your luck will change with epiphyllums. :)

So far my plumies are doing well in the basement. This time I'm not watering them or just barely giving them water. Laugh.

-Robert

Wow the epiphyllum looks so elegant! I hope mine will look similar when they finally bloom, I only have crenatum, cooperi and chrysocardium..And Mike, please don't shoot at your orchids, they are so pretty!!!

Hello Fenius...Good to see you)) Thank goodness for our scented growing flowering plants in winter..Thank goodness...Thank you for your kind comments)

Robert, I wonder if the flower is still on your plant? Do they flower for a day and then gone? Bummer if so.

Robert, thank you since I love these plants...I might just have to hang one way up in a tree exposed to full sun, maybe that would do it.I hear you about the Pliumies..lool
I was bad, since my winters are soooooo long, I thought I was not supose to water until spring...I got that wrong..I desicated mine...Then if I did water, it was too often of the basement got to cold depending on how often the furnace would turn on....Such a balancing act...I have had thoughts of taking them out of the pot and holding them in paper bags and misting the roots and then replanting them in spring..But I have none left to practice with.ha

Mike