Trish Brown writes:
John Savage wrote:

I love the perfume of lantana on a baking hot mid-summer day. Flowers or
crushed leaves, either will do. I wonder can it be bottled? I'd wear it on
a dull wintery morning to brighten my day!

Eeuuwww! There must be some major difference between people's smelling
apparatuses, eh John?

I like the flowers best of all. Picked a few the other day to keep in my
shirt pocket, so I could take them out from time to time.

To *my* dainty little nostrils (in fact, I have a nose like a lo-oo-ong ski
jump, but let's not go there...), lantana smells exactly like tomcat piddle!

Ah, my second favourite! $:-((

Aside: on the heritage 'White Gates' at Wallsend, they've planted a rambling
hedge of purple and white lantana. The colours go perfectly with the pale

I don't much like the hybrids. They have next to no perfume.

I reckon the most difficult-to-eradicate weed *I've* ever encountered has been
Jasmine! Once it takes hold, it takes *years* before you can get rid of it!

I tackled one that was confined to overgrowing a fence. I sprayed all the
foliage on one side with Roundup, and the kill was 100%. So satisfying to
see a hedge of brown crispy leaves replace one of green and pink! The scent
of a jasmine hedge right outside the kitchen is too overpowering even for me.
The trouble comes when the jasmine has been allowed to spread over the
ground, so that there are hundreds of small vines coming up everywhere. Get
yourself a sheep, or else borrow one, they just love jasmine.
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