Nothing beats sitting on your balcony enjoying the fresh sweet fragrance of the flowers. Or perhaps walking past your most favourite fragrant planter at your front entrance. Fragrance in the garden is easy to achieve, a few strategically placed scented flowers will be most rewarding. Flowers will generally release their scent in the warmer weather or early in the evening. You can have permanent fragrance using shrubs, herbs or perennials, or mix it up each season with annuals. Whatever you decide keep these tips in mind.
Plan for a full season of fragrance; use early and late blooming plants.
Stuff containers full with fragrant annuals and place near doorways, windows, pathways, and all over your deck.
Add fragrant plants to your hanging baskets and window boxes.
Be careful not to over power with scent, aka: don’t over do it. And keep in mind the allergy-suffering friends. This is where containers come in handy. They can be just tucked aside for the evening.
Plant extra so you can pick bouquets to bring the fragrance indoors! Remember to use organic fertilizer on these, especially if your placing the flowers near the dinner table.
Spring fragrance:
Lilacs, Daphne’s, and daffodils.
Summer Scents:
Perennials & Herbs: Dianthus, Roses (Tuscany Superb and Golden Wings are fabulous), Lavender, wholly thyme & Rosemary.
Annuals: Heliotrope, blue petunias, pink veined petunias, Priscilla petunia, stocks & nicotiana.
Top five fragrant flowers
1. Dianthus
2. Daphne
3. Lilac
4. Nicotiana
5. Blue Vein Petunia
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