Kitchen Garden Forum

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?

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

Very pleasant words for a sunday morning.

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?

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