Sunday, July 02, 2006
Garden Swimming
Today it was so moist, that as you walked the pathways of the garden, you could feel your face parting the air, like swimming slowly through warm water. Adding to this languorous air was the musky perfume from a hundred trumpet and Orienpet lily flowers, with the huge, waxy blooms opening around every turn, and with the plants reaching up to seven feet high, letting their heavy perfume flow down to the ground, then running downhill like a sweet river, collecting in the low spots in palpable pools, so that as you sit on a bench savoring this complex richness, it evokes images of a mysterious enclosed garden in Persia or Istanbul on a soft evening. Of all the trumpets and Orienpets, I love Vice Versa, shown above, best. It's enormous, open, dark pink flowers last a very long time, with a perfume that is lovely without being cloying. It is a flower to savor deeply.
// posted by IBOY @ 8:07 PM 
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Don, is the fragrance of the Orienpets much the same as that of Orientals? It's a smell I tolerate rather than enjoy.
Easter lilies, on the other hand, smell divine.
Easter lilies, on the other hand, smell divine.
Janet... that's the beauty of Orienpets; their perfume, to my nose, is much less cloying than that of Orientals. It is fresher, without that underlying funeral parlor oppressiveness.
Don
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