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A friend gifted me the seeds of Snail vine, I have two plants which are now 15 feet plus with many branches, they may bloom in September hopefully...

Yes Daturas are toxic but so are the Cycads, Euphorbias etc... they are beautiful and fragrant plants with bad reputation...

Welcome.For a scented garden you should try gardenias,Sweet autumn clematis which performs very well in lahore atleast,Vigna Caracalla,Hoya,agastache,akebia quinata,stephontis and ofcourse , jasmines.

On Saturday evening, me and Mir Afzal sb. went to Shalimar nursery and smelled the Ylang Ylang Vine flower, no doubt about the very unique fruit like fragrance which was increasing with the sunset... at a distance it felt like ripe mangoes with mixture of pineapple but sniffing directly was a complete different experience.. a must have for a fragrant garden...

Izhar wrote:On Saturday evening, me and Mir Afzal sb. went to Shalimar nursery and smelled the Ylang Ylang Vine flower, no doubt about the very unique fruit like fragrance which was increasing with the sunset... at a distance it felt like ripe mangoes with mixture of pineapple but sniffing directly was a complete different experience.. a must have for a fragrant garden...

I wish its flowers were more beautiful.

tweedle2009 wrote:

Izhar wrote:On Saturday evening, me and Mir Afzal sb. went to Shalimar nursery and smelled the Ylang Ylang Vine flower, no doubt about the very unique fruit like fragrance which was increasing with the sunset... at a distance it felt like ripe mangoes with mixture of pineapple but sniffing directly was a complete different experience.. a must have for a fragrant garden...

I wish its flowers were more beautiful.

I think there is a scientific generalization. Flowers which rely on colours to attract insects are generally not fragrant. However flowers which rely on scent are generally less attractive and mainly nocturnal. Raat-ki-rani and Har-singhaar are some examples. Raat ki raani flowers are unattractive yet it's fragrance is over-powering. Similarly Artrabotrys flowers can barely be visible yet the fragrance guides the origin of the flower to the insects.

Another observation (my own ... I don't know how many would agree) is that as you go towards the North (pole) and thus cooler climates flowers become brightly coloured but lack fragrance in general.

But in the end it is all the miracles of the best Creator.

salams

Can anybody tell me where exactly is Gulshan branch of Shalimar Nursery.

Thanks

N.I.P.A. Roundabout in front of Sir Syed University for Engineering

I am new to this forum and interested in scented plant. But whenever I go to the nursery they dont have the plants mentioned in your posts or they say its not as fragrant as stated on the internet. Please help.