Guest guest Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 I have confederate jasmine on a trellis outside my screened porch. It is blooming wildly and the scent is intoxicating during the day, but really fabulous at night. Some of my Oriental lilies are blooming early. One blossom will perfume an entire room. I also have dianthus, mostly Bath's Pink. I adore that spicy, sweet, old-fashioned carnation fragrance! genice in Columbia, South Carolina US Zone 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 I have confederate jasmine on a trellis outside my screened porch. It is blooming wildly and the scent is intoxicating during the day, but really fabulous at night. Some of my Oriental lilies are blooming early. One blossom will perfume an entire room. I also have dianthus, mostly Bath's Pink. I adore that spicy, sweet, old-fashioned carnation fragrance! genice in Columbia, South Carolina US Zone 8 It sounds wonderful! You must be swooning with delight! I lived in Hawaii for two years and was constantly amazed by the scent of the air; a cross between the ocean, mountains and tropical flowers. For someone who loves fragrance it was a beautiful experience. Even the rain smelled delicious and it rained fairly often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 > US Zone 8 > > It sounds wonderful! You must be swooning with delight! I lived in Hawaii > for two years and was constantly amazed by the scent of the air; a cross > between the ocean, mountains and tropical flowers. For someone who loves > fragrance it was a beautiful experience. Even the rain smelled delicious and > it rained fairly often. Wow, how are you not still there, Sonsa! I have finally decided to make my move back to NC...all these years I have wanted to live where I could grow jasmine! I can just about smell it inside these posts, today!That is actually a major factor! (and to go back 'home') Dabney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Wow, how are you not still there, Sonsa! I have finally decided to make my move back to NC...all these years I have wanted to live where I could grow jasmine! I can just about smell it inside these posts, today!That is actually a major factor! (and to go back 'home') Dabney No way Dabney! You're going back?! I'm so jealous! I LOVE North Carolina!! Let me know where you land and I just might join you! I'm being very serious here. I've flown out to NC several times now to look at real estate and there's just something about it that continues to " draw " me there. The first time I ever visited I felt as if I were " home " and I've never felt this way about any place; not even my birthplace. I left Hawaii because my mother had a stroke and my father called me and asked me if I could come and help him with her. I took a 90 day leave of absence from my job and ended up never going back. My stuff is all still there with my roommate. I went and visited it once a year for quite some time and then life got in the way and I haven't been back since. I'd like to go this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 > > No way Dabney! You're going back?! I'm so jealous! I LOVE North Carolina!! > Let me know where you land and I just might join you! I'm being very serious > here. I've flown out to NC several times now to look at real estate and > there's just something about it that continues to " draw " me there. The first > time I ever visited I felt as if I were " home " and I've never felt this way > about any place; not even my birthplace. I left Hawaii because my mother had > a stroke and my father called me and asked me if I could come and help him > with her. I took a 90 day leave of absence from my job and ended up never > going back. My stuff is all still there with my roommate. I went and visited > it once a year for quite some time and then life got in the way and I > haven't been back since. I'd like to go this year. well, if you have to leave paridise, it might as well be for family. but yeah, I'm from W. V. but NC is Home. Sounds like you have a nice thing going on in Pheonix, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 In a message dated 6/6/2009 4:13:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sonsa@... writes: >One of my favorite places (not that it >ever felt like home but I do love it) is Santa Barbara Santa Barbara county here! I love it here too, and everything grows, but it wouldn't without substantial irrigation. We had pouring rain yesterday morning, which was so refreshing, but that is an anomaly this late in the year; normally we're dry until December or so. It really is pretty stunningly gorgeous here, and I love my garden and roses and citrus, the royal palms, the jasmine and all the rest, but outside of the lawns and gardens the hillsides go as golden as prides of resting lions come deep summer. I was born in upstate New York and I still feel so at home up there in a very essential way. The low, rolling, glacier-smoothed hills, the trout streams which rush and sparkle everywhere, the deep, ancient glacier-formed lakes, the scent of mint and fir, and the deep pine-needle beds soft underfoot in the forests. Lawns full of alpine strawberries. Just all that unstoppable, lush green. I do love the Eastern woodlands! Every place has it's beauty, I think, but in some places the beauty is more pronounced than in others. I lived for 6 years in north Dallas just before coming here, and that was a very different environment in all ways.. It surely had it's beauty as all creation does, but it was more subtle, and you had to reach out for it, train yourself to be receptive to it's different manifestation. Dara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Dabney wrote: Well, if you have to leave paridise, it might as well be for family. but yeah, I'm from W. V. but NC is Home. Sounds like you have a nice thing going on in Pheonix, though! I guess I do but after ten long years I just can't get used to the desert! Some people just LOVE it here but to me it seems so desolate and hostile. Everything here seems to have thorns, horns, fangs or scales. I miss green grass that grows everywhere JUST BECAUSE and the creeks, lakes, rivers and streams that I've lived next to in the past, not to mention the ocean, which was never far from any place that I lived. And let's not forget the humidity in the air, which is extremely low here, for the most part. I know people complain about too much humidity but too little is not all that great either. It's horrible for your skin. One of my favorite places (not that it ever felt like home but I do love it) is Santa Barbara but I can't justify the expense of living in a place like that. That's why I left California - just too darn expensive for my budget. Hawaii is very expensive also but, gosh, it was worth it! California is very, very nice - don't get me wrong - but I still can't find a house there that I would buy less than $650K. Here that same house is $350K. Big difference. North Carolina seems to be a nice mix - ocean to the east, mountains to the west, moderate climate, affordable and green!! Sonsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 I was born in upstate New York and I still feel so at home up there in a very essential way. The low, rolling, glacier-smoothed hills, the trout streams which rush and sparkle everywhere, the deep, ancient glacier-formed lakes, the scent of mint and fir, and the deep pine-needle beds soft underfoot in the forests. Lawns full of alpine strawberries. Just all that unstoppable, lush green. I do love the Eastern woodlands! Dara Maybe that's it - I'm from Northern California and so miss the smell of the mountains and the ocean; the redwoods and everything in between. My mother always had her rose garden and underneath all our windows she planted honeysuckle and mint. On hot summer nights those scents would drift into my bedroom and fill the room with the most wonderful fragrance. We also had blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, watermelon and cantaloupe plus all the vegetables in the vegetable garden (too many to list). I've never been to upstate New York - it sounds wonderful! I think I need to travel more! I've been to a lot of places but, obviously, I still have more exploring to do! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 > > > In a message dated 6/6/2009 4:13:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > sonsa@... writes: > > >One of my favorite places (not that it > >ever felt like home but I do love it) is Santa Barbara > > > Santa Barbara county here! > I love it here too, and everything grows, but it wouldn't without > substantial irrigation. > We had pouring rain yesterday morning, which was so refreshing, but that is > an anomaly > this late in the year; normally we're dry until December or so. > It really is pretty stunningly gorgeous here, and I love my garden and > roses and citrus, > the royal palms, the jasmine and all the rest, but outside of the lawns and > gardens > the hillsides go as golden as prides of resting lions come deep summer. > I was born in upstate New York and I still feel so at home up there in a > very essential way. > The low, rolling, glacier-smoothed hills, the trout streams which rush and > sparkle everywhere, > the deep, ancient glacier-formed lakes, the scent of mint and fir, and the > deep pine-needle beds > soft underfoot in the forests. Lawns full of alpine strawberries. Just > all that unstoppable, lush green. > I do love the Eastern woodlands! > > Every place has it's beauty, I think, but in some places the beauty is more > pronounced > than in others. I lived for 6 years in north Dallas just before coming > here, and that was > a very different environment in all ways.. It surely had it's beauty as > all creation does, > but it was more subtle, and you had to reach out for it, train yourself to > be receptive to > it's different manifestation. > > Dara > Wow! What a beautiful word painting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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