I was comparing notes with a fellow echinacea admirer, and both of us have Fragrant Angel plants that don't smell like anything at all. They were acquired through different places, so I'm stumped. Does anyone have a Fragrant Angel that does smell good? or bad? Or anything at all? The flowers are great, the plant is sturdy & hardy, I just am wondering who did the sniff test at the plant development division!
Pat in Cincinnati
Any Fragrance to your "Fragrant Angel?"
mine has a fragrance but you have to stick your nose right up to the flower LOL smells good. but not very strongly scented.
Thanks, Kathy--- I was starting to worry abt my sense of smell. Foretunately, I've got a "perfumed" rose starting to bloom today, & I can smell it abt 20 feet away.
Pat
LOL my gardenia takes away the scent of all the other flowers right now, smells wonderful
valrita
Jul 10, 2008
Mine has a nice but faint fragrance. I notice it more after a rain but I have to be very close to it. My hubby can barely smell it which is odd because I'm the one who has a bad sniffer, not him. But it's definitely not a scent that wafts through the air like a lilac or lily.
valrita
Jul 25, 2008
Well, my Fragrant Angel HAD a scent but unfortunately I had to destroy it.
It was diseased with Aster Yellows.
Awwwwww.
Gosh, there's alot of that stuff going around this year. This is the first year i've heard of that yellow asters. I don't have any infected with that.
weir d thing though, I thought some of those hybrid echinaceas didn't come true from seed, but my dopple danger or mop head has babies (several ) now 2 years old and are blooming like their parents. weird.
I had it last year...it didn't make it through the winter. I didn't find it worth replacing and it had a very faint fragrance.
I've decided that mine would probably be more fragrant if its owner didn't live in the Sinus River Valley ;-) Mine is actually doing booming business as far as blooms are concerned, & bees & butterflies like it, so I'm keeping it.
What is yellow asters or aster yellows?
Pat in Cincinnati
valrita
Jul 27, 2008
This has some good pics of aster yellows:
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex578
Some threads about it
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/874251/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/460616/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/844390/
yep, i've seen the photos, weird looking.
Yuck--- thanks for the links, though. I'd rather be on the lookout & know what to do if I see it.
Pat
I have Fragrant Angel. It does have a faint smell. I do have to stick my nose right down by it to smell it. It is a pleasant fragrance.
here's a website with some pictures of coneflower diseases.
eryphoid mites infestation (treatable) is sometimes mistaken for aster yellows (untreatable).
hum, forget the web site? LOL
uhmm..i sure did.
ugh, it's tough when one starts falling apart.
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/focus/per_echinacea.html