night-scented muscari?

Randall P. Linke randysgarden@gmail.com
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:55:22 PDT
I have found that some heavily scented plants seem to have little or no
fragrance when you smell them up close but are highly fragrant from afar.
 It doesn't take a large flower to fill the air with scent.
Missing the smell of wintersweet, mine did not flower this year.

Randy
Monterey Bay Area
California

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>wrote:

> This week the big greenhouse attached to my house (two stories high,
> 15 m long) has been filled with a musky perfume each night.  I have
> only a few plants flowering - some cyclamen and Salvia gesneriflora -
> so I was puzzled.
>
> Then I found a pot of Muscari with small green flowers.   Could that
> be it?  It is not scented at all in the day, and at night it isn't
> scented either when I sniff it directly.  Very odd.
>
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> Diane Whitehead
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