She wonders if you know why.

Grumpy Gardener Answer:Yes, Grumpy knows all.

The other key in is a species called mountain hydrangea, and its botanical name is hydrangea serrata.

hydrangeas

Two things could have happened.

My solution is going to help you get around both of those situations.

And come spring, they’ll shoot right back up again and bloom.

magnolias

I know it’s happened in my garden.

So, if it gets killed to the ground, it’ll still bloom.

Well, who wouldn’t want that?

That’s an extra bonus that you get with your flowers, right?

But what I find is that, so often, flowers that are described as fragrant, aren’t.

I mean, you’d have to stick the whole flower up your nose.

You know, like lilies andmagnoliasand gardenias and bearded iris and stuff like that.

Flowers that have this teeny little scent that could probably only be noticed by a small little fly.

Those are fragrant flowers.

So stop mislabeling them.

Stop misleading the public.

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Ask Grumpyis a podcast featuring Steve Bender, also known asSouthern LivingsGrumpy Gardener.