On 22/09/2014 12:22, Charlie Pridham wrote:

"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
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Put this in a few months ago and it is doing well. It is about 80 cm high
and flowering well - an attractive plant at this time of year. But the
books refer to it as being fragrant, and I can detect no scent whatsoever.

Has anyone else got this in flower at present, and, if so, does it have a
scent?

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Jeff

All I have are buds! this despite the best summer in years, but this is the
first year its got as far as having buds so maybe one day. bought mine after
seeing the huge one at Wisley and hearing Sacha rave about theirs.

Thanks, Charlie. I hope yours flowers soon. I wonder if Sacha's has a
scent - maybe she's away as she hasn't posted in this NG for a few days.

On another matter, still no sign of flowers - or even buds - on the
Erythrina crista-galli. I was at an NGS garden a couple of weeks ago,
which had invited a few specialist nurseries selling interesting plants.
One, from West Somerset or Devon, had an E c-g for sale. It had a single
stem, was barely a metre high, and only a couple of centimetres in
diameter at the base. It was in flower! Grrr....

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Jeff