Cleome (spider plant) are lovely, but they smell like cat pee to me!

[hedgehog]

Am I the only one, because I've never seen a reference to them having any scent!

[feminazi]

1. I think it's you

:)

but maybe it's just that i kill mine before they get to the cat pee stage.

[hedgehog]

2. Is that a case of black thumb?

[Gormy Cuss]

4. We should compare notes.

I'm a serial cleome killer, much to the amusement of my FIL who struggles to keep them from taking over his yard. The kicker is I have a half acre garden and grow many hard-to-grow varieties, but cleomes are not my friends. :-)

[bluethruandthru]

5. My back still aches from Cleome

A neighbor gave me a few seedlings which grew into a lovely large clump of 4 foot tall plants. In fairness, she did tell me that they would reseed...but she didn't tell me to what extent! I pulled seedlings for months from all over my yard. They were sprouting by the dozens more than 50 feet away! They were even coming up in the grass. They are beautiful...but I'll never put them in my yard again.

[peacebird]

3. LOL! I must admit that I have never brought the blooms inside, but have not noticed a scent outside

Boxwood however... peeeee-yew!

Deer do not bother my Cleome, so I imagine the flowers have a scent that THEY don't like.


on edit: In our family we call them "Dr Suess plants" instead of spider - because they look like his wild drawings!