I fell in love with the perfume of Sarcococca on a sunny day in January on the Thames Embankment near Tower Bridge … when we got home I went straight to Notcutt’s and bought one and planted it by our front door … the perfume when we open the door at this time of year is wonderful and a few sprigs in a vase in the house is just lovely 😍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Strange thing, sense of smell. My NDN has several sarcococca. She loves it. I can hardly smell it. I think it's rather an ugly little bush, especially in summer. Luckily, I can smell roses.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I could take a photo of the one up the road, I suppose. But what if I got caught? " Oh I was just taking a photo of your plant to identify the source of that horrible smell " 😒
No @B3, wrong way round. "Oh I was just taking a photo of your plant to identify the source of that gorgeous smell as I would like one for my garden" 🙂
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
No @B3, wrong way round. "Oh I was just taking a photo of your plant to identify the source of that gorgeous smell as I would like one for my garden" 🙂
Then they offer you a spade and say. "Please do take it home with you, I think it smells awful"
I have 3 types of scented shrubs in flower at the moment - winter flowering honeysuckle, a couple of different sarcococca and a couple of different viburnum bodnantenses.
I love getting a little waft of them on a still winter's day - delicious - but I have tried taking small sprigs of each of them into the house and there I find the scent overpowering. Even just one or two small sprigs is too much.
It's a similar thing with hyacinths, jasmine and lilies. Lovely scent outside but sickly and overpowering in the house.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have you IDd it as Sarcococca, or could it have been Osmanthus? It's too early here for it to be in flower, but in the south it could well be.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Strange thing, sense of smell. My NDN has several sarcococca. She loves it. I can hardly smell it. I think it's rather an ugly little bush, especially in summer. Luckily, I can smell roses.
"Please do take it home with you, I think it smells awful"
I love getting a little waft of them on a still winter's day - delicious - but I have tried taking small sprigs of each of them into the house and there I find the scent overpowering. Even just one or two small sprigs is too much.
It's a similar thing with hyacinths, jasmine and lilies. Lovely scent outside but sickly and overpowering in the house.