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Old 06-10-2006, 10:28 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) is offline
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 6/10/06 19:43, in article , "Rupert
(W.Yorkshire)"
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 6/10/06 17:45, in article ,
"Janet
Baraclough" wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

It has a most peculiar smell
that I dislike but I love the shape of the leaves. And you seem only
to
get
the smell if you handle the leaves, so the answer is "don't".

A gardener colleague says exactly the same as you, except she says
it's
particularly horrible when their plant is wet. She hates working near
it.

I'm wondering if the smell varies between plants, or is it only hitting
one of those receptors that some people don't have (where is Nick). I
can't smell mine at all, wet, dry, touched or not, .and I really have
tried!

I have a keen sense of smell but I do think it's horses for courses. I
loathe the smell of Choisya which to me, smells of cat's pee to the nth
degree. Others I know can't imagine what I'm talking about.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

I know the smell of cat pee (5 cats). I can't get a smell from Melianthus
(just tried in the pouring rain) but that means nothing. Salvia
turkestanica
smells of pineapple as far as I am concerned but everyone else says it
smells of cat pee. Bloody cats!


S. turkestanica is one of the foulest smelling things ever made for the
garden! It smells of the worst kind of BO and is it takes a very good
wash
to get the smell off your hands. A friend of ours used to say that it
smelled of BO, wet wool and very cheap perfume. In absolutely no way can I
relate it pineapple!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/


Ah that explains it . Round here we got loads of wet wool, very cheap chav
perfume and BO-so any plant smells sweeter than that lot.
Mental note--must move Sawth:-)