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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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 Posted - Oct 03 2009 : 12:44:22 PM
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| I'm so glad I saw this post a few days ago. I headed to the nursery and bought one of each mentioned here! The silver berry and the sweet olive. I can't wait to get them in the ground and maybe next year I'll get to smell those sweet smells! Thanks for the recommendations! |
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
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Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 03 2009 : 12:53:56 PM
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Does Eleagnus have any bad habits such as being invasive?
Betty in Pasco (zone 6) |
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misstilliewillie
True Blue Farmgirl
136 Posts
glory
Tennessee
USA
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Posted - Oct 04 2009 : 07:24:35 AM
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Hey,
Be sure and buy this shrub: ELAEAGNUS X EBBINGEI.
It is NOT invasive and simply wonderful in every little way!
It produces teeny tiny fragrant silvery white flowers in the fall. It doesn't grow wild, is not a thug, and it can be pruned into a formal, evergreen hedge. The foliage is silvery green.
It's absolutely the most heavenly scented shrub ever, and if I had a thousand of them...all blooming at once...it would be like paradise itself!
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/misstilliewillie
livin' the sweet life! |
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magnoliakathy
True Blue Farmgirl
453 Posts
Kathryn
Magnolia
Texas
USA
453 Posts |
Posted - Oct 05 2009 : 5:41:21 PM
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The nursery here called it "Sweet Olive" the botanical name is Osmanthus fragrans (Sweet Tea Fragrant Olive)The one I have in my yard, blooms whenever the temperatures drop in the low 70s. Evergreen, intensely fragrant, small white blooms. When this sweetie blooms I can smell it all the way to my from gate about 175 feet away. I planted it in the shade, because they had them under a huge oak tree at the nursery, mine is about 5 feet tall and I have had it for at least 5 years. I keep saying I should move it into more sun, but I can smell it in my family room and bedroom when the windows are open.
When you free your mind your heart can fly. Farmgirl # 714, |
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Garden Gate: the sweetest smelling most fragrant shrub ever! |
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the sweetest smelling most fragrant shrub ever!
