Hello
I am interested in Calycanthus
Do you know Calycanthus Aphrodite?
In contrast to Calycanthus Hartlage Wine, it seems very fragrant
and it flourished again during the summer?
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b, and F (Zone 9b) I'm always on my way out the door..
Hi, rosebud.
That plant appears to be brand new here. It looks like it will be offered this spring. I found it offered at a pretty good discount yesterday and was tempted to try it, but the few pictures I've found of it didn't show many blooms...so I passed it up.
I want to try this shrub. The nursery photo I saw was loaded with blossoms but when I did an image search most photos had very few blossoms. Since the foliage and bark even have fragrance I'm still going to give it a try against a white stucco wall that borders a patio. I'm trying to plant with an emphasis on fragrance.
Hello
I just receive a calycanthus floridus 'Athens'
A very young subject, but there is only one nursery in FRANCE that sells
this cultivar.
I can not find information on 'Aphrodite'
This shrub seems very promising
Can you help me?
Good weekend
I bought one too. It was labeled sweet shrub calycanthus Aphrodite. It looks just like the calycanthus floridus. Which is the is the carolina allspice. I am not sure if its the same or not. The pictures look the same online.
I also bought the Venus as well and the seeds for the Athens.
There is a thread on here that has people experimenting on the sweet shrubs Michael Lindsey which i think is the same thing as the Aphrodite. But i might be wrong. Please someone on here correct me if i am wrong.
These are suppose to be very fragrant. I have yet to smell them though. Waiting to one day smell them.
Hi
Aphrodite is a new hybrid
like Hartlage wine but with smell
Blanckspace,I hope to have more info during this spring ..perhaps,a picture with blossom ?
Here in South Carolina, the humidity seems to help the fragrance (this seems true of many plants) and I think the fragrance is stronger in the evening. (We had some at the nursery I work at) It blooms for a long time, but not as heavy as the one time show of Hartlage Wine.
My parents have a sweetshrub here. It too has no smell and it's as humid as you can get here. I have never seen one with a smell out of all of those in gardens I have been to.
Always looking for interesting plants for pollinators and food! Bonus points for highly, and pleasantly scented plants.
"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro. 46 BCE
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