@Bumplbea, thank you, glad you like the pictures. As far as gophers, they don't come up into that particular garden where the tuberoses are, thank goodness, hope they never do. They usually stay in another area where they happily destroy as many daylilies as they can. We hate it, of course, but we won't put down poison, that's way too dangerous.
When we lived in a different part of Texas, we grew the big "tobacco" nicotiana, and yes, lovely fragrance. Here in northeast TX we have a "Fragrant Cloud" honeysuckle and Lonicera periclymenum var .Serotina. I keep thinking there is a "florida " in there someplace but someone can correct me on this. Also, we grow two large bushes of Lonicera fragrantissima, the winter honeysuckle and in February, it is wonderful when it hits peak bloom.
I can only guess if you have gophers, you have sandy type soil like we do, are you on the east side of the state? My husband and I have been fortunate enough to have been in Oregon a couple of times, on vacation, but we never got to stay very long--too bad, we loved it.
