In My Mother’s Garden: Pakalana, One of My Favorite Fragrant Vining Flowers
Pakalana Blossoms on the Vines Found Among the Red Ginger
NOTE: DoT has been posting from Honolulu since late July when she left California to help her mother through some medical procedures. She will be doing so until she can return to Orange County.
DoT’s Thots: They say that the sense of smell is perhaps our most evocative sense. I do know that the scent of certain flowers affect my sense of well-being in a deep way. Pakalana blossoms always makes me feel refreshed in a gentle way.
Pakalana Bud Details
Fragrant Vining Flowers Make Lovely Scented Leis
While looking at stalks of red ginger, I was so very pleased to find some pakalana blossoms on vines twined around the red ginger stalks. The modest pale green and light orange blossoms are so pleasantly scented as to invoke freshness, light and pleasant, never cloying nor heavy-handed.
My father, who died in 1996, loved these blossoms for their fragrance. He tended to like blossoms for their scent rather than for their colors or shapes — yellow and white ginger, gardenias, jasmine, and these pakalana blossoms. These fragrant little blossoms make a very pleasant lei to wear, one that is quietly dignified and smells fresh and refreshing.
Aloha, DoT
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