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Catherine hughesCatherine hughes Posts: 3
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Hi, every mid to Kate May I have a stomach churning nasty smell in my garden. It is dampish, nauseating, mouldy perhaps, wettish, stagnant type smell. I can't find a plant that it is coming from, the smell comes in wafts with the breeze, my newborn and I have scoured our gardens, but just can not find the culprit. Can anyone help? It is getting worse each year!

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Pure guess - do you have any Red Valerian in your garden?

    http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/280793/

    It's the roots which stink on that one, not the leaves or flowers.  Can't stand it myself.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Catherine hughesCatherine hughes Posts: 3

    Thanks, I need to look up red valerian and check

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Or Viburnum tinus with a bad case of Viburnum beetle?

    Or a Rowan in full bloom. Some folks find the scent from them rather lass than pleasant.

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    Could it be a Stinkhorn fungus hidden under a bush. Often smelled on a country walk. Smells like a nasty case of drains.
  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Hawthorn blossom makes me image

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698

    At college there was a Photinia under my dorm room which smelt of fish. Until I worked out the source of the smell it caused me a lot of worry, and excessive cleaning of the sink in the corner of my room (being a horrid student you can guess what the sink ended up being used for after a session at the student union bar)....

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    I had stinkhorn fungus in my garden, I accused my dad of shooting something and not picking it up, the stink was awful!

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Catherine hughesCatherine hughes Posts: 3

    Not got any red valerianvalerian, but I'm now going to crawl along the hedges and look down low. I do have lots of old hedges and dense patches of wood. It does smell of drains, thanks for the suggestions!

  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806

     Sounds like stinkhorn to me. You usually smell it before you can see it. Smells a bit as if some animal or bird has died and rotted. I have never noticed a smell from red valerian, which we have in our garden and in the lanes around here.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Do you live in Cornwall Green magpie? Loads of it growing along the roadsides.

    as I said before, the Stinkhorn fungus. I sat and watched one grow...they just keep coming up then look like something quite rudeimage

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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