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Is Stinking Iris sold in most nurseries?

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  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Lyn said:
    Herb Robert is one I have to get rid of, I think it stinks. 
    It's pretty, but I pull every bit, it's too space greedy for my liking. Not the most pleasant pong I s'pose!
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    This made me chuckle - I've just posted about Herb Robert.  I have stinking iris too (although it has never smelt horrible to me) - a gift from the birds I think.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I have too much stinking iris in Norfolk, light blue, very pretty in a muted sort of way. I have to pull it out though, leaving some. 

    I have lots of herb Robert in France. I like it. The small barn roof was so pretty, just covered in it, God knows what it was growing in.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I love the smell of Herb Robert 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I can’t smell the iris,  the one I really don’t like is woundwort,  I can walk down the garden and catch a whiff,  wherever it is I can find it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Woundwort smells vile.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Valerian root is the worst, cheesy feet, lol, but such a great herb!
    I love the smell of neem oil, I don't think anyone else in the world does though. 😄
  • SYinUSASYinUSA Posts: 243
    Salvias smell, to my nose anyway, of cat urine. I suppose it's just as well I can't grow them in the thick clay here.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Lyn said:
    Herb Robert is one I have to get rid of, I think it stinks. 
    It is only as you get rid of it that it stinks.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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