Best three fragrant plants

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Best three fragrant plants

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If you were to plant only three different fragrant plants in your house, what would you choose and why?
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Motia, marwa and raat ki raani.
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1
Chambeli (the one i have is much more fragrant than motia)
Reason:
Pest free
abundant blooms
No fertilizer needed

2
Gardenia
Reason:
Beautiful bloom
last for some days on plant

3
Datura "Evening Fragrance"
Reason:
Big pure white blooms which glow in twilight
Different kind of fragrance
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Motia,Marwa and Gardenia
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Getting interesting.
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pulmeria, chambeli, raat ki rani
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Muhammad Arif Khan wrote:If you were to plant only three different fragrant plants in your house, what would you choose and why?
All members are requested to participate. :roll:
My choices are:
1. Molsari (Mimusops elengi): uniquely fragrant flowers, a maintenance free tree. Flowers bloom at night but are fragrant through out the day

2. Haar singhaar: nocturnal, with fragrant bloom- The morning lawn is a beautiful sight when you find a carpet of white flowers around the tree

3. Mowgra: everyone's favourite but it is nocturnal :-(
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Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa), Motia (Jasminum sambac) & Dwarf Marwa (Murraya exotica)
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M Farooq wrote:
Muhammad Arif Khan wrote:If you were to plant only three different fragrant plants in your house, what would you choose and why?
All members are requested to participate. :roll:
My choices are:
1. Molsari (Mimusops elengi): uniquely fragrant flowers, a maintenance free tree. Flowers bloom at night but are fragrant through out the day

2. Haar singhaar: nocturnal, with fragrant bloom- The morning lawn is a beautiful sight when you find a carpet of white flowers around the tree

3. Mowgra: everyone's favourite but it is nocturnal :-(
do you have tham? I would like to know more about Moulsari, the plant I have seen did not impress me.
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Re: Best three fragrant plants

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Arif sahab,

Yes I have two Moulsari. The tree itself is beautiful but the flowers are inconspicuous (it belongs to the cheeku family so the flower is similar to the cheeku tree). It is the fragrance that is very unique.

http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_ ... find=bakul

Is this the same tree which you don't like :-( ?
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