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Old 12-07-2009, 08:20 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default ID plant/flower please?

On Jul 9, 3:43*pm, hubops wrote:
I googled * *petunia + fragrant *
This site indicated *blue-very fragrant
*( but picture was a red one ?)

http://www.burpee.com/product/id/102862.do

Good luck.
Let us all know what you discover.
*John T.

(snip)

Thanks John,

I think most of the ones in my original pic were blues and whites with
a couple of red ones:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...IMAGE_028a.jpg

However I just uploaded a pic of mine:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../P7110001a.jpg

According to the little info "card" the nursery sticks into the soil
when you buy young plants, my red/red-white ones are of the "Pirouette
Rose" variety, and my yellow/white ones are "Prism Sunshine". That
card even refers to their website: http://aaswinners.com/

Well, I picked a red one and a yellow one after dark, and brought them
in the house to isolate them from the alyssums, etc., and I sniffed.
The yellow one had no scent at all, and the red one almost too slight
to notice, and what I did smell didn't seem like what was in that pot.
I tried during the day, same thing. The bluish flowers in my garden
are some type of violas, which do have a little scent. I also have the
bluish-purple variety of alyssum in my garden behind the white ones,
but their scent is weaker than the whites, which are quite noticeable
and I like. The white ones seem to be taking over which is fine with
me. Next time I'm near that planter, I'll have to look around more,
something I'm not seeing. Actually whatever it was, I ran across when
I was young, and I asked what that was, and someone told me
"honeysuckle", and I remember like yellow or reddish flowers at the
time (can't remember which), and they were bigger and looked different
that what I now know as honeysuckle, as I bought a Japanese
honeysuckle plant about 5 years ago thinking that was that old mystery
plant, and I find that it isn't, but I kept it anyways.