I grow both of those Arthropodiums and have pictures on the wiki: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… I've not really notice fragrance in my plants. Perhaps it needs to be hotter when they are blooming. A. milleflorum has really small flowers, but they are cute. It looks like I'll have seed of this one Geoff if you are interested. Dirk Wallace once shared with me some Erythronium seed collected in California by Wayne Roderick who shared it with Dirk in Australia. And Gary Reid traded sent me seed of A. milleflorum when I sent him seed of California species. It's funny how those things work. I decided to get rid of that Cosmos that smelled like Chocolate and later saw it was back. So it can survive wet winters. I wanted to get rid of it because I think I didn't think it was that impressive a plant, but then with my very low nutrient soil and rampant competition from redwood roots, I've found that most perennials don't do as well as they do in other gardens so have replaced them with shrubs that are tougher. I just checked and it looks like it is still alive. At least there is a leaf, but no sign of flowers. It is interesting that Diane's Gladiolus is fragrant. G. tristis has a wonderful fragrance, but only at night. If you smell it during the day, there is no smell at all. I have a hybrid short Glad that is probably one of those hybrids they call Gladiolus nanus. For years it did really well in my garden. Then I dug them up to share and there was a real decline. I had to dig out the few survivours when we need to find our septic tank and have it pumped and I saved a few to grow in a pot and added a few others to the ground. Last year I divided the ones in the pot and put some more in the ground. This year with all of our late rainfall they have appeared all over my garden. Either they reseeded or I truly planted them in places I don't remember. I was thinking that perhaps they had been virused and disturbing them was enough of an environmental change to bring on the virus and that was why there almost disappeared. Now I'm not sure what to think. It's a stunning color though so have added it to the wiki. Mine has no scent I can tell. Maybe Diane can add the one she is growing that is scented. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Dave Fenwick has some of the G. nanus pictured on his page: http://www.theafricangarden.com/page55.html It looks like he has one like I have, but is just calling it a nanus hybrid. Diane may see what she has pictured on his page. No one ever said if they thought the white one I added under Gladiolus x colvillei to our wiki was a named cultivar. Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers