I moved into a house about 13 years ago and a few springs later this plant started growing next to the southeast corner of the front porch....then just a matter of a few weeks later the plant was HUGE, then came this shoot up from the center, with a most interesting mottled stem (stalk?). Then an amazing dark maroon "roll" started to unfurl. To my amazement it was the most beautiful Calla Lily type bloom.......But, OMG, what a nasty smell! And the flies flocked to it, and consiquently onto our enclosed front porch, each time the door was opened, then into the house they came!!!
The smell from that thing was absolutely rotten.....needless to say, it was dug up and hauled to the landfill...now we have babies coming up and we dig them out as soon as the greenery shows.
WHY ANYONE WOULD WANT ONE OF THESE NASTY SMELLING PLANTS ANY WHERE CLOSE TO THEIR HOUSE IS A MYSTERY TO ME. My neighbors were real happy when that plant went out into the bed of our truck, and down the road to the county landfill!
I can not believe that anyone in their right mind would want one of these IN the house.....YUK!
I moved into a house about 13 years ago and a few springs later this plant started growing next to the southeast corner of the front porch....then just a matter of a few weeks later the plant was HUGE, then came this shoot up from the center, with a most interesting mottled stem (stalk?). Then an amazing dark maroon "roll" started to unfurl. To my amazement it was the most beautiful Calla Lily type bloom.......But, OMG, what a nasty smell! And the flies flocked to it, and consiquently onto our enclosed front porch, each time the door was opened, then into the house they came!!!
The smell from that thing was absolutely rotten.....needless to say, it was dug up and hauled to the landfill...now we have babies coming up and we dig them out as soon as the greenery shows.
WHY ANYONE WOULD WANT ONE OF THESE NASTY SMELLING PLANTS ANY WHERE CLOSE TO THEIR HOUSE IS A MYSTERY TO ME. My neighbors were real happy when that plant went out into the bed of our truck, and down the road to the county landfill!
I can not believe that anyone in their right mind would want one of these IN the house.....YUK!