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The most beautiful of flowers on the ugliest of plants?

punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
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A description I have just read of a certain plant. 
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How can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team

S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    The rose? There's one I have, Gabriel Oak, simply hideous. BUT  the most divine bloom and  scent.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    was it a description of frangipani?
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    The Rose, but it could easily have been Frangipani.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think Gabriel Oak was a tough rough character with a good heart. Not sure if he smelt good eau de sheep maybe.  Sounds like the perfect name to me.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    Apparently you can now get evergreen frangipani but I think it may be inferior in other ways. The deciduous ones are certainly deeply unattractive when dormant but I 'm not sure that the evergreen ones have that delicious fragrance. 
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    GardenerSuze said:
    I think Gabriel Oak was a tough rough character with a good heart. Not sure if he smelt good eau de sheep maybe.  Sounds like the perfect name to me.
    True!

    I am far more of a George Eliot girl than a Thomas Hardy fan, though. It irks me that the TH-named roses are so much more to my taste than the GE ones.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @WhereAreMySecateurs I love Jane Austen but I don't think there is a plant by that name or maybe a Rose. I am finding this a challenge I can't think of many ugly plants
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    Harsh calling a rose ugly. I think the stems and thorns can be beautiful. So many different colours and forms.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Rosa Glauca, the leaves, stems and hips  are more beautiful than the flowers and they're not bad either.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    Hostas and Mahonias.. apologies to those who like the foliage..
    East Anglia, England
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