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Originally Posted by musaboru
I have a blooming one too! It smells very delicious. But Im afraid that it might not set fruit; An overwhelming amount of the immature fruit are dropping. 
Also Banana shrub - smells like apples and bananas, very heavenly around sunset when the fragrance intensifies....
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I was hoping that my Michelia Figo could be planted outside here in Zone 8-9, but they are struggling to survive. I had 4 plants 2 years ago, but one did not grow back in the Spring last year. Two of the surving plants bloomed last summer, but the third barely sprouted leaves. I'm afraid that third one my be gone, too. It's not showing any signs of sprouting.
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Originally Posted by musaboru
Waiting for Michelia x alba buds to fatten up and this 'First Love' Gardenia to open up more but it smells really good even at this stage....they are really taking forever because the weather here is like very sunny for a week, and then the next week its cold and hazy. 
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Where are you located? I've sent some Michelia Champaka var.
'Alba' to several members here in FL and other places in the south, and they have not gotten any flowers from them. Mine blooms easily here in Seattle, and even survived in a cold greenhouse in the winter. Some were continuing to bloom throughout the winter, too!