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Does anyone have a smelly Sea Holly?   I planted it last year and it's a beauty. It attracts lots of beas and hover flies but it stinks to high heaven and I am getting funny looks from my neighbours lol.  Does anyone else have this problem. I have googled it and there are a couple of posts from the USA but non from the UK so it doesnt seem to be a common problem.  I wonder if i should just dig it up and plant another one and hope that it is not a smelly one!  Any advise welcome  :)

 Eryngium planum smells like cat muck, in certain weathers. Get Miss Wilmots ghost for a plant that is odour free.

Thanks Ace, sounds like a plan!

I've got the same problem! and area in my garden smells of cat poo. I'm sure it's one of the plants.

Box,
fatsia,
jasmine,
contoniaster
pheladelphous ( not flowering)
Heuchera

( sorry for the bad spelling)!

I'm just going to have to keep on sniffing until I work out which plant it is.

Well not box and certainly not jasmine! I've never noticed a smell from cotoneaster... Are you sure it's not... well, cat poo?  :-\

I walk past a front garden on the way to the shops which ALWAYS smells of dog poo. It's very steep and on top of a high wall, so it doesn't look like the sort of place a dog would choose to poo. So I assume it's a plant which smells like that. very nasty.

You are probably right...but I thought a smelly plant was preferable to smelly boots and hands if you've been weeding.

ugh! :-\

eurgh!  :o We have a lot of it in our garden too, it's hard to keep next door's cats off.
You'd probably better wear gloves just in case.  :(