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Amargia wrote:
When we decided to raise honeybees, the hardest part for my blind wife was giving up some of her favorite fragrant plants. Fragrant azaleas, Carolina jessamine, fragrant oleander varieties, Texas mountain laurel and brugmansias...We are still searching out replacements. This thread is a wonderful place to get ideas. I love watching hummingbirds so agastache is my personal favorite fragrant plant. Followed by lavender, thyme and rosemary. It may be a guy thing, but I like the scent of Vitex negundo. (Chinese chaste tree). It smells sort of like lemon pepper.
Among fragrant blooms, my Spring favorite is jonquils. My summer favorite is an unidentified red rose. The blooms have the classic old rose scent, but, what I especially like is that the foliage has a sort of green apple scent. Autumn clematis would be my favorite fall bloomer, if it weren't so aggressive in this area. Since we can't grow autumn clematis, #1 position for fall bloom is a toss-up between fragrant goldenrod (Solidago odora) and deep sea crinum. (The crinum blooms first in summer, but gets lost in a scent-scape of magnolias, honeysuckle and gardenias. It has the stage to itself, however, when it blooms again in October. Witch hazel is my favorite winter bloom, but others here would vote for the tea olive. It usually blooms in Jan. or Feb. in our garden. There are some unexpectedly fragrant camellias, as well.
I would add the cool season annual mignonette and sweet box to the list of fragrant plants we seem to be creating. They keep a nose happy in the off-season.
High summer is a tough season in our scent-scape. 'Fragrant Angel' Echinacea sounds promising. Has anyone gotten a whiff of that one? (Jim)

Photo of the mystery rose.