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On Jan 17, 2008, fburg696 from Farmersburg, IN wrote:
This is definitely one of those plants that once you grow it you will never want to go another summer without it. The scent is like vanilla cloves and its very strong.I really enjoy this little plant, its not very visually stunning but when the sun goes down you will know why you grow it! Great plant, does very well in my garden. One of my favorites; if you haven't grown it and decide to it will soon become one of your favorites also.
On Mar 11, 2005, spklatt from Ottawa, ON (Zone 5a) wrote:
I love these plants! They don't look that exciting during the day - rather unkempt - but come evening, the little flowers open and the most wonderful cocoa-butter scent wafts across your yard.
They also self-seeded quite readily in my yard - but if they didn't I would buy them every spring anyway, because they smell great.
On Feb 28, 2005, saya from Heerlen
(Netherlands) (Zone 8b) wrote:
Amazing ...so tiny ...and such a great scent ! This is absolutly one of my favourites. I sow these in pots..you could easily mistaken it for a weed during daytime. In the evening though..one little flower, only as big as a drop of rain, will perfume your whole garden..
This is a great plant-an old favorite of mine-it is a little, frail weedy thing in the daytime-but the flowers lift their heads when the sun sets and just put out this delicious fragrance. Some plants seem to be MUCH more fragrant than others-and soil chemistry may have something to do with this. I'm not sure but I think that they are also much more fragrant in positions where they aren't too inundated with fertilizer and tending - like an edible herb they like to suffer a bit! It makes them more intense. someplace a bit dry that you dont fertilize alot
I have occasionally sown them in containers with other more decorative plants-thinking that I would 'borrow' their fragrance that way...it usually doesn't work, as they either die from to much care, or just don't smell all that much, where their compatriots that were sown out at the neglected end of a bed somewhere REALLY go crazy! ...some plants are just little wild things-no matter what you try to train them into!!
On Nov 29, 2001, poppysue from Westbrook, ME (Zone 5a) wrote:
Not the showiest flower but worth adding to the garden for the wonderful evening fragrance. Plants grow up to 2 feet tall with pale lilac or white flowers that open in the evening to release their perfume.
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