Specialty Gardening: Fragrant plants for shade, 1 by valrita

valrita wrote:
If you have room for a small-medium shrub, perhaps you might like Clethra. It'll bloom in the shae and there are cultivars that are as small as 3' X 3'. They have white or pink flowers (some say red but they look pink to me). It's a wonderful sweet scent. I have 'Sixteen candles', 'Hummingbird', 'Sherry Sue', and 'September Beauty'. They're each different and I like them all. I suppose that my favorite is Sixteen candles because it's small and compact and has lots of flowers. They'll be blooming sometime in the next month giving me fresh color and scent.

Sixteen Candles, taken a few days ago