I don't mind herb Robert and I like the smell of privet because it reminds me of endless always sunny school holidays. About the only plants in our inner city streets apart from enchanters nightshade and a few calendula down someone's area* I have a fondness for all of these plants. *space in front of basement window to non North Londoners
We must get a few dozen a year but had about 15 out at one time in a normal, small city garden, it wasn't much fun to be outside I can tell you. We see them in the local woods, or more accurately smell them from quite some distance, and they seem bad there but it's nothing like when they are in close quarters. Fascinating but I could do without the smell of rotting flesh. I'd hate to know how bad the titan lily smells.
On a nicer note we had about 50 brugmansia flowers out at the same time last year and once the conservatory door had been opened for a while, as they were very overpowering without any ventilation, it smelt lovely.
Some daffodils smell of urine to me and I can't be in a building with a hyacinth! 🙂 I am also not keen on the aroma produced by astrantia flowers. And cordylines really pong, IMV.
I absolutely love sweet peas, though I can get a headache if I'm in a room with freshly cut stems produced very early in the flowering season. Later ones seem slightly less intense.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have a fondness for all of these plants.
*space in front of basement window to non North Londoners
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/fungi-and-lichens/stinkhorn/
We must get a few dozen a year but had about 15 out at one time in a normal, small city garden, it wasn't much fun to be outside I can tell you. We see them in the local woods, or more accurately smell them from quite some distance, and they seem bad there but it's nothing like when they are in close quarters. Fascinating but I could do without the smell of rotting flesh. I'd hate to know how bad the titan lily smells.
On a nicer note we had about 50 brugmansia flowers out at the same time last year and once the conservatory door had been opened for a while, as they were very overpowering without any ventilation, it smelt lovely.