We have a smelly one, too (The Argus, June 23).

We tell unwanted callers the smell given off by our dragon lily is the drains. They soon leave, which is perhaps why it is also called the voodoo lily - because some callers are never seen again.

The Royal Horticultural Society say these lilies are hard to grow, well we reckon it's harder to kill off.

Our monster is about 15 years old now. I transferred it to my garden from my old house, not wanting to inflict it on the couple who bought my house for fear of them thinking I had sold them somewhere with a drain problem.

I dropped it on a chalk bed and left it, not caring if it ever grew again, never in our wildest dreams thinking it would ever grow again. But every January, it reappears.

-Geoff and Sally Wells, Brighton