Prunus mume love the scent of this one look forward to it every year

Lost the lable of this one

brunfelsia pauciflora not looking at its best but still a wonderful scent

Nice one Ruby.

Lovely photos Brian.
How would you describe Mitriostigma axillare's scent?
Does it waft?

- Bob

Yay - there are 3 flower buds on my m. figo :)

She has officially stopped sulking about being moved indoors. (To save my back, I will not move my pots out this year. ) Thanks to the info from the good folks here, I managed to keep her & gardenia tree free from mites/pests that usually plague them over the winter. Now I can see many leaf buds emerging so hope they will eventually be as leafy as they were before.

So very beautiful in the garden today. Temps should be around 14C. Is there anything better than a warm spring day?

White tips emerging from buds of Yulan magnolia so should be smelling that soon...

M. maudiae now breathing out all her fragrance...

Daphnes still going strong, and skimmia j. 'Fragrant Cloud' is in the mix too:

Beautiful. I've always wanted a magnolia out front.

Vietnamese

Gardenia

Does M. maudiae survive outside for you in Canada?

Yes, planted it 11 yrs ago when daughter was born. It's about 15 (?) ft. When temps are low (-12C ish) leaves droop & look frozen, but they bounce right back. Wonderful plant; nice to have evergreen foliage in winter when a lot of plants are bare.

Here it is from top floor:

Wow that looks amazing :) bet it smells great too :) And i have been moving mine inside and out in a large pot every spring/autum :( might try it in the ground this year then we never normally get below about a -7/8c

I think it's considered Zone 7? She's my pride & joy. At the height of flowering, tree will be twice as covered in white.

If only m. alba would survive outside here and get that big!

I've ordered a m. figo skinneriana & will put that in the ground. Fingers crossed;)

Huge flowers of m.sargentiana. Just the slightest hint of fragrance but omg so beautiful

The colour on that magnolia is gorgeous.

Freesias are popping up.

My gardenia is still going.

Twilight zone bloomed. I hate this rose as a bush. Love the flower. Supposedly a lovely strong fragrance. Everyone around me raves about it.

I can't smell it lol.

That's a lovely rose. Ordphien. Maybe your rose is young. I've noticed that some roses are not as fragrant the first year....

It's in is third year.

Such an unhealthy plant.

My plant is fragranced. These rave reviews are from friends and family. I personally just can't smell it really. I love the color though.

I can understand your dilemma, the flowers are nice, the plant is ungainly and sick. I had a I had Carruth rose, Midnight Owl, it was healthy and had lovely flowers but wasn't suitable for our northern climate. So, I kept it until it croaked!

I finally have something new blooming to share, hyacinth. Pretty common but at least I grew them to the point of flowering and didn't buy them that way. ;)

Robert I disagree. No fragrant plant is that common :-)

Love the combination, pure white and coral pink, that sings spring to me...

Mini Jasmine sambac -

I've seen midnight owl, it's lovely.

I really need to work on my roses this year. The soil they are in is terrible.

Is it a mini plant? Or just a minI flower? I'm a sucker for mini

I believe it's a climber :-)

Sorry made a mistake, the name is Night owl.

Good luck with the soil...

LOL Ordphien! I feel the same way too about Twilight Zone. Everyone raves about the scent over at the Rose Forum. I passed on it. The color is amazing but I just can't smell it either. The same for it's parent Ebb Tide. I think its something about the ancestry of these roses where the scent is undiscernible to some people (kind of like the thing with asparagus).

Maggie, I love those Maudiae blooms. They're so beautiful.

Thanks! It's such a prolific bloomer too (which is why the fragrance wafts halfway down the lane.

This might give a better idea...

Fully open branch:

The m. denudata is in full bloom. Some have described it as "orchid-scented" but to me it's like a light fresh rose scent

Cool mine is definitely going in the ground this year then just need to find a spot for it :) Did you give it any protection the first few years or did you just plant it and leave it?

No. In fact it was kind of abused as we were building our garage the year it was planted, and almost got squished a few times. I think the coldest I can remember was -12C or so but more usually our winter low will be -8 or -10C.

hyacinth are up :)

Red form of prunus mume

parma violets are flowering like crazy bit of a messy plant but does scent the whole greenhouse

And the almond scented abeliophyllum distichum

Ooh Parma violets. I tried sourcing those a few years back. This reminds me to start looking again

I've been enjoying the scent from our crabapple but not as much as the bees.

They've been all over it all day. :)

hey guys!!

I missed your beauties! your magnolias are so impressive Maggie, I got a few tiny ones this winter but I think it'll be long before I see them bloom.. I have only michelia doltsopa to show off, it keeps on blooming since February and I love the scent, I find it similar to x alba but with a cooler, crisper note ..I had read it resembles cinnamon in my book but I don't think it reminds me of it at all, in fact, I wouldn't have ordered yet another m x alba this year had it bloomed earlier!

What do you guys think of your magnolias' scent in comparison to this one? or alba or grandiflora..or coco for that matter?I 'm trying to get an idea so as not to order very similar ones...Oh, and my small michelia champaca survived our relatively harsh winter (-1C) this year outside with no protection whatsoever so this is how I'm treating all michelias from now on ( I killed grown ones by getting them inside for the winter last year) and maybe even some tropical gardenias next year and that's that!

I'm also looking for magnolia wieseneri, hope this seller carries it next year..Where did you get yours Brian? We have the same red p.mume by the way but mine is putting out leaves now, it blooms in february here..oh and maybe your orchid is some coelogyne? maybe cristata?

Love the crabapple Robert! I wish mine blooms next year at last! Do you know what variety it is?

Keep posting!

xx

oh I forgot to post my favourite little peach tree with crocus blue pearl tucked under it! It is slightly fragrant by the way.

Fenius! I've missed you!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful pics.

Ha! Knew I should've stated the cultivar. Malus x 'Prairie Fire'. :)

I love all Blossom trees just scream spring is here :) Wow Robert your crap apple is early you must be getting some nice weather ;) mine is only just budding but the Prunus spinosa are out in flower both in the garden and my bonsai one :)
Michelia champaca outside in winter :O one of the more tender ones mine is kept in a greenhouse still drops most of its leaves. And my wieseneri is from Burncoose fenius

Beautiful m. doltsopa, Fenius! Wish that would grow outside up here. I'm guessing then, that the Fairy Blush that I'm pining for is similar in fragrance due to the parentage.

That crab apple is lovely, Robert. So nice to see honeybees:)

Just love this time of year in the garden. The green of the new leaves so delicate & pretty.

Here is daphne x transatlantica 'Eternal Fragrance'. A real trooper, blooms continuously & heavily from end of frost until the next frost

Osmanthus delavayi. Can barely smell anything, whereas a friend has one with great scent:(. Oh well, it is pretty

Osmanthus burkwoodii. A tiny bit better but still have to put your nose up to it

There is light fragrance but you have to re-eaaly bend down to catch the scent. So lovely though

Ok this one you can smell:). So pretty too. Viburnum carlesii

Thanks Brian, I'll check out burncoose

cool carlesii! the plant above it is trillium??

My crapapple is 'Cardinal' I think.

I'm off to orchid watering day..

dialaelia snowflake frosty starts off pure white and over time changes to this peach color fragrant to :)

BL morning Glory x C angleswalker

Iwanagara Appleblossom (atleast one of my appleblossoms is flowering :P ) and Great fragrance

cattleya intermedia

Ugh. Gorgeous, Brian. I've been wanting an Appleblossom.

wow, I love the snowflake!!!

I only have non fragrant phals blooming now, I had hoped phal philippinensis would at least be fragrant but I detect nothing.. Waiting anxiously for first blooming of phal javanica!

I have wild freesias to keep me going at least and some fragrant cyclamens ;-)

Gorgeous orchids...not easy to look at with my self-imposed ban, haha. So tempting.

Fenius, yes that's a little trillium. I don't even remember planting it but it's been popping up for a few years. Very sweet little flower.

Lovely pictures Brian, fenius & Maggie.
I had a chuckle when seeing the Freudian slip concerning crab/crap apples. There is one close by, scentless, which then showers the pavements with tons of fruit, which rots and not even the squirrel finds edible. Definitely a crap-apple...

Maggie does Eternal Fragrance waft or is it stick your nose into it type?

We're having snow showers again. Thank god the Jasmin is flowering all over the place. My dwarf murrya is full of buds. I hope it will flower this time as the buds have the proclivity to die off...

Got a store grown hyacinth, three bulbs in a pot, (don't have Robert's patience!), the scent was so strong I could smell it several yards away...

The other day, I was watering the plants and the room was suddenly full of a delightful rose scent. I was a bit confused not knowing what was happening until I realized that I had brushed against a scented rose Pelargonium. Delightful little plant, easy to take care of.

True-blue...well, d. odora wafts like no other :) and I like its type of fragrance best. Still, Eternal Fragrance has so many flowers that it does find its way to you, more like creeping up sometimes, 'oh what is that fragrance' and if you stand near it you will smell it for sure. Biggest positives for me is that it stays nicely evergreen and of course long flowering period both on old & new wood.

Learn so many things on this site. I see there are many tiny alpine daphnes & there is a Canadian site which I'll be poring over. D. arbuscula described as 'holy grail' of daphnes & even more fragrant than odora (!). You might find this interesting:

http://www.lottah.com/shrubs/daphne/arbusc.htm

http://www.wrightmanalpines.com

Wow, thanks maggie for the links. So many daphnes. I like the fact that your favorites are miniature Rock plants.

Daphne blagayana seems even more intense in fragrance.

Whoa, I just checked Wrightman's shipping rates. Pretty high to ship out to BC. Yikes.

Curious if you'd be interested in trying to grow some of these in your area? Some seem to be quite hardy

I'm always interested in growing fragrant plants, it's just that I don't have much space left among other things.

But in hypothetical scenario, where I could splurge and experiment, I would be interested in the many of smaller Daphnes, both arbusculas and cneroums: D. arbuscula Muran Castle and Daphne cneorum porteous...