Smelling Tigridia Vanhouttei

Mary Sue Ittner msittner@mcn.org
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:00:22 PDT
Hi Martin,

I went out to smell my plants which have been blooming for a couple 
of months now and if you have to get really close to the flower to 
smell anything at all and at that distance it is only slightly 
unpleasant, certainly now like the note on the wiki. On this list in 
the past we have talked about how people's ability to smell fragrance 
is variable and also how there can be differences in fragrance 
between different forms of the same species. Probably it would be 
worth adding a note to the wiki. After reading your post I smelled my 
Eucomis bicolor and I had to get close to it too, but it too wasn't 
very unpleasant, though stronger than the Tigridia. But then I think 
my Ferraria crispa has a pleasant vanilla like fragrance so may not 
be a good judge.

On another note I succumbed to NARGS seeds of Tigridia pavonia 
'Sunset in Oz' since I think it is so beautiful even though I've had 
poor experience keeping T. pavonia going where I live and even though 
I know if I keep it alive long enough to bloom the flowers may not 
look the same. But I remembered once before getting it to bloom the 
first year from seed so was gambling. Today I see a spike forming. 
Sowed 2/22/15, up 4/15/15. I can't wait to see what the flowers will 
look like. Ellen Hornig's photo on the wiki of one of the offspring 
looks so different from the parent.

We finally got some rain, first significant rain since May and we 
didn't get much then. But everything is still very dry.

Mary Sue

Mary Sue Ittner
California's North Coast
Wet mild winters with occasional frost
Dry mild summers 




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