10 Bad-Smelling Flowers and Their Use in Landscaping

When you think that all flowers smell good, then think again. they are lots of plants around us that really smell bad but still have good use in our landscape. Check out this list.

Your first impression may be that it borders on oxymoron to speak of bad-smelling flowers. Isn’t the blossom symbolic of fine fragrance? Rose blossoms certainly are, for which we have such proverbial expressions as:

  • “Stop to smell the roses.”crown
  • “He came up smelling like roses.”

Be that as it may, pointing out that a plant has bad-smelling flowers is not exactly a man-bites-dog story. The phenomenon occurs a bit more often than you might think. This is true even if we exclude those strong-scented blooms, such as Easter lilies, over which people are divided, some listing them among the fragrant flowers, others finding the odor offensive.

Nor is the focus of the information below on bad-smelling flowers that you can find on just about any web search on the subject, many of which dwell in the warmer regions of the globe. Instead, the main focus is on bad-smelling flowers that gardeners in the North are more likely to encounter. The examples listed below may not stink as badly as the notoriously foul-scented “corpse plant” (Amorphophallus titanum) of Sumatra or its somewhat smaller relative, Amorphophallus konjac (the snake lily), but the average reader of this site is much more likely to have dealings with them in everyday life.

Read more: https://www.thespruce.com/bad-smelling-flowers-in-landscaping-2132164