One of my favourite things about summer is the smell of gardenias. When I was a little girl, I planted a gardenia tree outside my bedroom window so I could smell the perfume when the window was open on warm summer nights.
I now have a gardenia hedge which, despite being neglected this year, has nevertheless produced beautiful blooms. This would be thanks to the weeks of wet weather, most likely.
I keep a bunch on my desk so I have the fragrance with me all day and park my car near the hedge so I can smell the flowers every time I go out!
Gardenias are one of my favourites too and I recently found a new variety - the native gardenia. These are trees not shrubs and are very hardy. I planted them a few months and haven't got any blooms yet so I'm waiting to see if the perfume is the same as the shrub.
ReplyDeleteI love the scent of gardenias too. And murraya. And the big fat red roses out the front of my house are just amazing this year. Not that I had anything to do with that...
ReplyDeleteI discovered we had a gardenia (very neglected) growing in our garden thanks to its distinct scent. In the garden of our first house we planted a night scented jasmine bush close to our back deck so we could have a lovely fragrance on warm summer nights.
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