09-01-2007, 10:19 AM
I like the Indian or cinnamon gardenia even better than the others. It wafts really well.
Puakenikeni eventually becomes a large tree, so keep that in mind when you choose its location.
I love the fragrant ixora -- this isn't the common orange-red one you see in all the shopping malls. I got mine at Garden Exchange, ask them about the fragrant one.
It ramps up its fragrance at night.
I have to say that night blooming jasmine smell makes me feel literally nauseated -- and your neighbors will smell it too, so I would check out whether you like it and to be a good neighbor ask them. People either love this fragrance or hate it with a passion and think of it as a blight -- as I do. Even Sunset warns that it's too intense for many people -- and not like intense in a good way! To me it smells like something is dead. It is not a true jasmine, by the way; it is a cestrum.
Pikake (Arabian jasmine, a true jasmine) is a great fragrance too.
I love angel's trumpet (brugmansia), but it likes a lot of water, and it too is a potent fragrance, but I find it intoxicating. YMMV
Puakenikeni eventually becomes a large tree, so keep that in mind when you choose its location.
I love the fragrant ixora -- this isn't the common orange-red one you see in all the shopping malls. I got mine at Garden Exchange, ask them about the fragrant one.
It ramps up its fragrance at night.
I have to say that night blooming jasmine smell makes me feel literally nauseated -- and your neighbors will smell it too, so I would check out whether you like it and to be a good neighbor ask them. People either love this fragrance or hate it with a passion and think of it as a blight -- as I do. Even Sunset warns that it's too intense for many people -- and not like intense in a good way! To me it smells like something is dead. It is not a true jasmine, by the way; it is a cestrum.
Pikake (Arabian jasmine, a true jasmine) is a great fragrance too.
I love angel's trumpet (brugmansia), but it likes a lot of water, and it too is a potent fragrance, but I find it intoxicating. YMMV