Favourite garden smells?

[hmk]

lilac and honeysuckle. And bluebells.

HMK

[miffy]

I love the smell after it has just rained in the summer, it is fresh and sweet, lovely.

[Lemon]

roses, lillies, lilac (in flower in our garden now!), gardenias, honeysuckle, lavender, and of course......baaahbeeeeecuuuueee!

[happybunny]

Hyacinths... lavender... sweetpeas... lillies... fresh compost and my herbs

[Creemteez]

All of the above - and the smell of crushed carrot leaves when you twist them off after harvesting, freshly dug earth, the smell of Beau's fur when he's been lying out in the sun all day, a freshly opened flask of good coffee when you've just finished digging over a new bed!

[bramble]

Lilac, Lavender and newly mown grass.

In the greenhouse it has to be the smell of tomato leaves or the humid smell you get when you damp down the greenhouse floor on a hot day.

[Redpepper]

Roses, lemon thyme, lavender and the smell of freshly harvested veggies!

[terrier]

Amazing how many people say cut grass, it's certainly my favourite smell. Not quite garden, but I like to go stand with the horses, it's not just the smell, it's the sense of peace when you get close to them.

[chrispy]

wood burning on a bonfire does it for me

[Glutton4...]

Amazing how many people say cut grass, it's certainly my favourite smell. Not quite garden, but I like to go stand with the horses, it's not just the smell, it's the sense of peace when you get close to them.

With you there terrier. I sometimes just bury my nose in my Horse's coat - he smells lovely! Other than that - garden smells, for me it has to be the garden after a well needed rain shower, and the old favourite cut grass too!

[JimmerG]

Howsabout a couple of 'off the wall' ideas - The smell of petrol spilt over the lawn mover, and lovely lovely creosote (even more now than its been banned!)

J

[Flummery]

I love the smell of rain on dirt - and freshly dug dirt. I'm just a mucky woman!

[Madasafish]

In the morning when I go down to the greenhouse the following smells greet me:
fox excrement: our buddleia patch used as a toilet.
cow excrement: the field adjacent.


After that any garden smell is lovely: especially wallflower at present...then in summer approx 15 buddleia...

[Mikey]

Sweet peas for me, and carrots freshly dug up, but my all time favourite smell of summer, is wet tarmac on a hot day.

[jackie j]

I love the smell of cut grass, Lillies, sweetpeas, the smell after the rain, the sea, ( probably cos I spent most of my childhhod in the sea )