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Unveiling the beauty of scented plants

Hello there! Welcome to my fagrant plants blog and insights. My name is Lotte and if you are here you love fragrant flowers too, -or will very soon. Here you will find my experiments, successes and failures in trying to find and grow the most fragrant plants. I hope they will inspire you for your own home and garden, happy growing!

Cestrum Nocturnum flowering cuttings

October was a sweet month. My original cestrum nocturnum bloomed for 3 weeks straight! I saw the first side branches appear somewhere in september. In the beginning of october there were buds forming. And on the 10th of october the first bunch of flowers opened and the rest soon followed. The cestrum is anything but…

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Flowering houseplants in November

I didn’t take any good pictures but decided to write this post anyway. Mostly as a reminder to myself that forgetting something isn’t the end of the world and as a reminder to do better next year. It’s a real shame I forgot because most of my oncidiums were blooming. I have the following variaties…

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Fragrant flowers in september

It’s the beginning of September and the meteorological autum has started. Most of the true summer flowers are finished for this year even though it is still exeptionally hot. True show stoppers at the moment are:

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The Passion Flower Family

Passion Flowers; I love the fingerd leaves, the climbing habit, the tasy fruit, and the spectacular blooms. The blooms smell fruity just like the fruit itself, be it a bit sweeter. The bees in my garden all come flocking to the greenhouse where I grow a caerulea, a blue passion flower. This species is prized…

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Hoya love…

Most members of the hoya family have fragrant blooms. Some are nice chocolaty to floral but some stink like old socks. Or so I have been told. The problem is that I never got mine to bloom. But I like a challenge! So I got myself some hoya cuttings and hopefully some will bloom for…

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The Fragrant Pelargonium family

I received a cutting from my aunt years ago, at the dawn of my plant obsession. It had deep cut fragrant leaves an it turned out to be a pelargonium citrosum. It hasn’t bloomed for me yet but I don’t mind since the fragrance comes from oils in the leaves. I have it placed beside…

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Cestrum Nocturnum; The Lady of the night

Cestrum nocturnum, lady of the night or night blooming jessamine. I bought it a few years ago because of the poetic names. One night around 23:30, I was still up, and my livingroom was silently invaded by a sweet floral scent. I went to investigate and found my cestrum nocturnum blooming in a bedroom upstairs.…

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Fragrant flowers in may

It’s the third week of May and a lot of flowers are showing off, both indoor and out. Blooming fragrant (house)plants Jasmine Gardenia Jasminoides Kleims HardyWhen the flower opens the bud turns a yellow, in the course of a day the flower unfolds like origami artwork. It has a musky sweet fragrance. The classic jasmine…

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