Comments on: The unbearable sweetness of hyacinths

By: The StopWatch Gardener

The StopWatch Gardener — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:25:58 +0000

Thanks Amy -- the guys at Fission Creative did it for me, I take no credit!

By: Amy/GoAway, I'm Gardening!

Amy/GoAway, I'm Gardening! — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:49:43 +0000

What a great blog design…i love it! I am glad I found your blog and will be happt to visit again.

By: The StopWatch Gardener

The StopWatch Gardener — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:26:14 +0000

Hi Manda. There’s one rose, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which I’m convinced I’m not smelling completely — all I really get is that grassy scent you mentioned. It’s a pity roses can’t make their way into your brain; I find them very satisfying. I had a friend in Ireland who fell off a fence when she was a little girl and lost all sense of smell.

By: Manda

Manda — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:30:28 +0000

I can’t smell anything sweet. Sniff a rose all day long and all I’ll be smelling is the grassy scent of all plants. So my favorite smells are the citrus and minty herbs on the walk way. But those, you have to actually step on to get anything.

By: The StopWatch Gardener

The StopWatch Gardener — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:20:51 +0000

Nell – I haven’t even thought about Noxema in years…not available here in Scotland! Those lilies do have a certain tang in the smell, like an ointment, but one stem in a vase in the hallway here perfumes the house for a week…I adore them.

Deborah – After I went to bed last night & thought, DOH, should have put lily of the valley on the list! That is one amazing scent. Mine have done so poorly in the garden; I put them in a raised bed, just in case they spread uncontrollably, but no spreading at all.

Thanks both for leaving your views!

By: Deborah at Kilbourne Grove

Deborah at Kilbourne Grove — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:41:25 +0000

When they were going to throw away a flat of forced hyacinth bulbs at the flower shop where I work, I said that I would take them. The main flower was finished, but there were plenty of small side shoots in flower. I drove them up to Kilbourne Grove, on a cold, snowy day in March. At first it wasn’t to bad, but I had a wicked headache from the smell by the time I got there.
My favourite smell would be lily of the valley, I just love them.

By: Nell Jean

Nell Jean — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:58:06 +0000

I put my hyacinths away from where I’ll be, so I just get the whiff as I pass by on the way out the door, or coming in.

Sweet peas. I have a craving for sweet peas that goes back to when I was four. I was insanely jealous of another child who was a flower girl in a wedding. I didn’t want a pretty dress and long curls, I had those. I WANTED that sweet pea corsage the aunts pinned on her. Actually the fragrance of sweet peas is the perfume of an old lady. I forgot to ask her its name.

Don’t you think that Trumpet lilies smell a lot like Noxema skin cream? It’s a teenage memory and I’m transported to my pretty blond cousin’s room.