Does Night-scented Stock grow in your part of the world?

Night-scented Stock, also known as Evening Stock is actually Matthiola Longipetala.  I'm not sure as to the worldwide recognition of this humble flower, but if it doesn't have any, it surely deserves lots!

It looks modest enough (and I'm not going to treat you like an idiot by describing it, because you can SEE it above), but it has one amazing quality that not everyone may know about - smell. 

You can guess it by looking at its name - night-scented stock starts to grace the world with its smell only when it gets dark.  The scent is beatiful, sweet and oh so strong!  This tiny shrub on the picture, just a handful of flowers, one or two plants altogether, can make my head spin. 

I woud've never been reminded of how great this flower is if not my night trips to my balcony garden.  Imagine me, more or less in a nightdress, sneaking outside just to get a few twigs of parsley or whatever.  Then the scent attacks and I'm standing there, charmed off my feet, just smelling it and who cares that it's windy and raining.  THAT's how powerful the plant is. 

Another great thing, which may not be obvious and which I learn by my own experiment is that the night-scented stock doesn't need a big container to grow.  I have to admit - some of my plants do suffer because of living in half of a plastic bottle, they grow dwarf-size and generally don't behave (a subject for a whole separate post, really), but this small purple flower grows like insane and totally doesn't mind harsh conditions.  Conclusion - you can grow it anywhere at all. 

Second thing worth mentioning - it looks fragile, but it's actually very weather resistant.  I live right at the oceanside and my balcony is sometimes tormented by really strong winds - night-scented stock doesn't seem to mind at all. 

Blah, only the name is awful.  Night-scented stock, like if I was cooking or something.  Would someone please come up with a better name?

I have some seeds left, and I'm feeling generous today, so how about this -  if you send me a nice email to experimentalgardens(at)gmail.com and include your address, I will send you a handful of seeds.  One package only, I'm afraid, because I can't afford more postage (unless you charm me off my feet, haha) - if there's more emails I'll just pick my favourite, ok?