We've just realised where the pleasant smell was coming from in the vegetable garden......
Broadbean flowers!! Like perfume
Any other veg with good scent?
Vegetable scent
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Poet John Clare loved blossoming beans too:
'My love is as sweet as a beanfield in blossom ...'
'Mong the bean-fields bosom high, How thy starry gems and gold To admiration would unfold ... Sweet as the thyme that blossoms where she kneels; ...
Brassica flowers smell erm, interesting - the jury's still out, can't decide whether it's pleasant or cloying. I think the flowers of cucurbits smell rather lovely, but agree that the scent of broadies in full flower, wafted on a warm breeze, is one of the treats of early Summer
'My love is as sweet as a beanfield in blossom ...'
'Mong the bean-fields bosom high, How thy starry gems and gold To admiration would unfold ... Sweet as the thyme that blossoms where she kneels; ...
Brassica flowers smell erm, interesting - the jury's still out, can't decide whether it's pleasant or cloying. I think the flowers of cucurbits smell rather lovely, but agree that the scent of broadies in full flower, wafted on a warm breeze, is one of the treats of early Summer
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Very pleasant words for a sunday morning. 
Kind regards Old Herbaceous.
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Kind regards Old Herbaceous.
Theres no fool like an old fool.
What a nice thread.. I never thought of vegetable flowers having scent - how stupid of me 
I wish I'd got some broad beans in so that I could smell them. I was admiring the flowers on the spuds yesterday, and thinking how pretty they are - I think I'll go and have a sniff, too! Alas, no other veg flowers out yet 
and later on,I might see if I can find some more John Clare poetry... did he write any more about vegetables?
I wish I'd got some broad beans in so that I could smell them. I was admiring the flowers on the spuds yesterday, and thinking how pretty they are - I think I'll go and have a sniff, too! Alas, no other veg flowers out yet and later on,I might see if I can find some more John Clare poetry... did he write any more about vegetables?lol zena, if you find any more do post it here! just found a reference to the honey-like scent of cardoons/artichokes in flower on the 'artichoke or cardoon' thread - mine never get that far, but what a lovely thought