Stolen spade and Mexican Orange

Firstly i am a mere amateur inspired by Monty Don and have a great love for italian gardens myself.

I need to blow off steam about two things, firstly someone stole my favourite spade (an old relic of the fifties i believe) i leave it in the same spot usually in the back garden as i have a beautiful Robin that likes to perch there!

Secondly and more important, i bought a Mexican orange and felt deflated when unwrapping it to discover it did not have the scent of Oranges ? AND now concerned if i plant it under my front window ( I want to smell the scent on a late summers evening as the wind wafts the leaves about) it will die from the ground frost !

Any advice and the whereabouts of my spade welcome. Thank you.

Feel slightly better already.

 

Hi Zouse ..I assume you mean a Choisya (Mexican Orange) I would say it is the flowers that smell of orange blossom rarther than the leaves .. Others may have different ideas..
Sorry to hear about your favorite spade
Dave

 

I think your spade is behind the shed, just on the side where the door opens, next to the empty cup of tea.

Thats where mine usually end up.:DOH:

 

Thank you

Thanks for all your comments and advice, who said gardeners had no sense of humour.

Glad i have some new friends that can pass on their knowledge, and sympathy.

Alas my spade is gone forever....

 

Some gardeners have a sense of humus.

 

Everyone else has covered the whole scent/flowers/spring thing here already!
Regarding the frost, Choisya does get frost damaged in a severe enough frost, (especially the golden ones) But you can cut them back to below the damage in late Spring and they recover well...you probably wouldn't get flowers that year?
If you want summer scent too, plant something like a honeysuckle under your window too.

I always find that along with a good sense of humour/humus, gardeners always call a spade a spade too.....(oops, sorry about yours!)

 

Strange, I've never thought Mex orange, Choisya, flowers to smell anything like orange blossom, I think it has a kind of musty sage like smell.
I agree with shiney, mock orange, Philadelphus, is probably nearer the mark on scent.

 

It has a scent I agree, but more the kind you get from herbs in my opinion.

Not a sweet scent, and nothing like orange blossom.

I'm not saying its unpleasant, but at the moment I'm getting a much better scent from Laburnum, than from the Choisya.

Philadelphus is flowering in the woods now.