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Does it smell good like a pineapple?

certainly dramatic -- and eye catching -- at least my eye when I first saw it five or so years ago. Brilliant in the right space, but don't think it would work for me.

the first photo is beautiful, elegant...
K T G:
i have a friend who grows them in his backyard, and there was no fragrance until i left the fruit on my counter to ripen.

Pineapples are bromeliads so they are very easy to grow and thrive with absolutely no attention. But most of the year you just have a 2-3 ft wide spiky bush about 2 ft high.

http://wierdling.longboys.net/images/pineapples/pineapples/pineappleRipe1.jpg

Please avoid the ones with spikes along the leaf, although those are the prettiest when there is no fruit. All those thorns end up a half-inch long and stiff. If you go with the spiny ones, make sure you have an out of the way place to plant them and no kids or pets play in your yard. They aren't very dense, so make sure you have a weed barrier. You don't want to pull weeds near them. They are very painful.

Signed, "Voice of Experience."

Hey! I was going to eat that.

The graphic designer my company does a lot of business with sent us a Flower of the Month Club gift for Christmas. They send some very hardy, non-traditional arrangements that survive being shipped by UPS. Just last month we got a bouquet of these little suckers! They dry out perfectly when you snap them off the stems. They're now keeping out potted plants company around the office.

As someone who neither gardens nor keeps house plants (usually) or gets flowers, I find this one of the most fascinating recent threads on the topic. Just like charlenemcbride, my first thought was - waste of a delicious pineapple! But I am excited about this, I never knew they were a flower. Makes a lot of sense. As a follow-up to my earlier question, does a cut pineapple flower have a scent as opposed to the one still in the ground? It's not a full fruit, so will it get the effect of ripening, i.e. the smell, or not? May be a stupid "biology" question, but is that actually the smell of beginning to rot? If it's true they dry out pretty good, then they're not decomposing like a fruit, so my guess is no. It is a mystery to me why they don't smell like something while they grow, though.

Can you tell I associate the pineapple with the flavor as much as the appearance?

KTG,
I know that the pineapples I had didn't smell at all, which was a little disappointing. If you look back at the photos, these are so small that they're just about all spines and no fruit.

I'd rather eat a pineapple than look at one. It does look kind of cool, though.

Hey, those take a long time to grow! (2-3 years)
I'd rather let it grow, even if it's really cute.