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My favourite must be tomatoes. I also love the smell of Rosemary and Sage. The smell I'm waiting for (nowhere near yet) is ripe melon. It's a really overpowering musky smell. When the melons are nearly ready I open the door every day in expectation.
Mine smells of tomato plants, so do I as I love getting in amongst them! Other than that all I can usually smell is weed smoke. From the neighbours *ugh*. However I'm just pleased that I don't live next door to the people whose garden smells by turns of dog poo or too much laundry suds.....!
I love it when it's just rained and you can smell clean wet foliage and earth and tomato....
I do enjoy so many of the simple smells or oders that the garden/allotment has. Even though I'm an advocate of no dig, there is a satisfaction gained from the smell of fresh turned earth. I need to curb the urge and lifting potatoes is a treat for the nose. The shed, the garage/woodcraft workshop and the plot shed each have a friendly pleasing aroma and the greenhouse exhibits it's own seasonal smells. Currently dominated by tomatoes and a slight chilli scent it changes when water settles the dust (just like that smell as it starts raining).
Presently the front garden boarders are full so cats can't use them, the lawn does get gifts left about once a week that need clearing away. Alas my roses look fabulous but are modern hybreds and don't smell of anything much even if you stuff your face in them.
I'm also guilty of causing a stink when I use my nettle tea, comfry tea and urine mix liquid fertilizer. This is usually late evening in the greenhouse and on the outdoor plot tomatoes. The stink is gone by morning if not even sooner.
We don't have many scented plants specifically, mint, basil etc. and a few lillies. But the general aroma of garden freshness is a daily joy.
Lavender and rosemary by my back door.
My lilies in the evening.
Sweetpeas, especially when the air is still.
The wonderful smell of tomatoes when I go into the greenhouse
My old rose, Ena Harkness, dark wine with sn intense scent.
My Just Joey rose, a real fresh floral smell.
And of course, the scent of newly moen grass.
And when your back stops aching,
And your hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.
At the moment, by my front gate, there's a helichrysum that smells of curry battling with a white self-sown honeysuckle. None of the ones I bought have such a good scent!
Nothing at the back apart from the smell of apples from sweet briar when the foliage gets wet. I don't recommend it. Rampant 20ft+, vicious hooked thorns bad black spot. Waiting for three David Austin roses to bloom. Loads of scents from January but stopped with philadelphuses ceasing.
All my roses have had a glorious scent this year and it's nice that their perfume is released at different times of the day which is dependant on the variety.
I work very hard so please don't expect me to think as well!
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