Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 14 2012, by Matt Newman
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is still sashaying through summer with plenty of color! It’s not far from the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, so make a point of stopping in when you come for the “Pickle Me!” activities taking place daily through the end of this week.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Roses smell great but my favorite floral scent is lilac!
I love the classical scent of Roses. It never gets old.
Carnation. Or lavender.
My favourite smell at this stage of summer is sweet pea. I built a 2 meter pyramid and they are halfway up. I pick a bunch every week to improve flowering
I love Gardenia, Jasmine and Honeysuckle!
Good Morning!
Lilac is my favorite scent.
Lily of the valley is my favorite floral scent!
My absolute favorite scent in the world is Night Blooming Jasmine right after it rains. This aroma sends me to my happy place instantly.
Lavender is my favorite. It’s relaxing and soothing, especially when mixed with vanilla.
I fell in love with the scent of orange blossoms while attending school in Arizona. I loved going out for a night time drive in the spring with the top down and inhaling that intoxicating scent. It was everywhere!
I am currently enjoying the fragrant Hoya lacunosa that has bloomed in my kitchen for the first time since coming home as a cutting 5 years ago :-)
I love the soft scent of violet.
I love the fragrance of Jasmines and Tuberose. Sandalwood is also wonderful.
The scenery in this picture is lovely. Keep the great posts coming!!
The perfect balance between delicate and intoxicating, I am a slave to the smell of gardenia blossoms.
I love catching the scent of honeysuckle while driving down the road.
My favorite scent is Lavender
Lavender definitely a favorite. Soothing, calming and beautiful
Lavender please.
Definitely Lilac!
My favorite is lavender.
My favorite floral scent issss…………….Lily of the Valley!
My favorite summer is Clethra (Summersweet)
My favorite scent is Lavender!
The smell of a moonflower on a warm summer night…I lift my granddaughter…the perfect, white, petals cover her precious face…the smell evokes thoughts of fairyland and magic…by morning the bloom will be gone…
My Favorite Floral scent is Rose and Currant Leaves..!! it’s like magic! and that’s diptyque candle baies! God Bless nature ***
Too many favorite scents. Freshly cut grass, the smell of a garden after it has just rained, roses in full bloom, a pot of basil, and fields of lavender. All equally intoxicating floral scents.
My favorite scent is Mimosa!
I love the clean, soapy scent of Peony and Orange Blossoms!
The scent of jasmine. Sweet but not overpowering, and most of all- fresh. Also, Diptyque’s 34. Slightly masculine and woody, which makes for such an addictive and complex scent.
My favorite floral scent is Tuberose!
My favourite scent is Little-leaf Linden (Thilia cordata), scent of Nordic midsummer.
Lavender!
this post is so nice….
gardenia, lilac, lavender, rose, eucalyptus, jasmine, tuberose, rosemary, basil, peony….not necessarily in this order….
Rose as it is so totally feminine and beautiful and fills me with memories of being a little girl and visiting and old lady who lived near my grandma whose homes always smelt so beautiful..happy thoughts, happy days
The scent of real roses, including the green leaves on the stem is gorgeous!
Lilac allows you to smell its blossoms from a few feet away. Roses, – you have to sink your face into the individual blossoms and take a deep breath and lavender asks you, to rub its leaves gently in order to release the aromatic oils. Honeysuckle might surprise you during your evening walk through your garden. It is all a matter of preference and maybe, depending on what mood you are in that very day or evening….These smells make us happy, but nothing makes me more happy than hovering butterflies and bees, who find the smell and sight of my flowers irresistible and feed them at the same time. The highpoint of the season so far are yellow tiny birds (common Yellowthroat – common Warbler, I believe) sitting on my cosmos and giant zinnias and possibly picking up insects. I have never seen anything like it before and what a joy to not just have a lovely garden but be a host to a great wild life party…
MY FAVORITE SCENT IS LAVENDER
Jasmine and lilac (even though its flowers make me sneeze)!
I think Gardenias have a very beautiful, feminine and distinct scent; I love wearing a fragrance that has a Gardenia note in it!
Gardenia, especially when it blooms in the greenhouse and the warmer air concentrates its smell :)
It reminds me of my childhood days at the Polynesian Resort Hotel at Walt Disney World. They had huge gardenia bushes planted around the grounds.
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My favorite floral fragrance is lily.