smell of Phlox

My grandmother grew Phlox. She filled the whole backyard with them. It was a multicolored sea of beauty but they never had any smell. I'd love to have Phlox growing all over the place like that if they were fragrant! When the season ended we'd collect the seed heads by the apron full, sort them, and store them in glass jars with the month, year, and flower name on them. Everytime I see this emoticon I remember them... 

Last edited by Sucarie (2012-07-07 16:52:17)

Yes, I know and love the smell of phlox- they smell like honey and hay or grass to me-

I wonder why yours didn't smell much and didn't return, chickenpotpie? They are very easy to grow here in western Pa. Wonder if you had a bad winter that year-

I think they smell a lot more on hot sunny days, and probably less if it's damp and cloudy-

Pansylady, I wish I knew!!  If I'm recalling it we had plenty of snow that winter with nothing too crazy.    I'm in Mass so I knew they should have came back and not do like the one year I planted Dahlias (I never dug up the bulb was the problem there!)

I honestly just dont know, everything else came back around the phlox, so it wasn't lack of nutrient in the soil.   I do wonder if maybe they were dug up by a squirrel or chipmunk (of which we have plenty)

Phlox smell like a summer meadow to me!

chickenpotpie, I am lousy with bulbs that have to be dug up and replanted the following spring- dahlias, gladioli, and caladium- I got ambitious and tried to store dahlias in the shed once before frost, and the next spring, all I had left was a box of dessicated tubers-

   Pansylady - Phlox smell like a summer meadow to me!

I agree!

oh, I love them! the tall ones all colors, and the creeping phlox! had them in the garden all the way back to childhood... they sort of remind me of carnations with less "spice"  sort of..

Who knows where I can get a sample of it?