I love plants of all kinds but while colors are nice the smell is what gets me.
What do think is the best?
What plants do you find to be the most fragrant?
Angel Trumpets & Night Blooming Jasmine...
I gotta have it for the Nightbloomig garden..
MsC
I love my night garden as well! I have a lady of the night
(Brunfelsia Americana) that I wheel in and out over winter but I would not live with out it! Then of the Four O'clocks we spoke of on another thread. Im without a night blooming jasmine at the moment but that will be taken care of very soon! Have you ever heard of a Goumi bush or Eleagnus multiflora it gets heavily scented flowers fallowed by a tart fruit I was thinking of getting one but not sure how it would do here.
I absolutely love the fragrance of moon flowers, of the morning glory family, only blooming at night instead of the morning. I usually have two big pots of sweet allysum with moonflowers growing up twine along the porch, with a big pot of night blooming jasmine on the porch too. I like to spend a lot of time sitting on the porch in the evenings...smells like heaven!
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Jasmine molle has a strong scent, especially at night. It's almost as intense as night blooming jasmine, but is a totally different fragrance, more musky where NBJ is sweet.
I love all the ones mentioned above, especially the four o'clocks. I have white ones by the front entry and they smell so nice. This particular white one has never set seed. I'm not even sure where it came from, it just popped up in the flowerbed and is the only white one I have. I have grown 4 o'clocks for years and didn't realize they were fragrant till this year!
viola odorata
tuberose
gardenia
daphne odora
datura (especially the double/triples)
cestrum nocturnum
-T
I would have to vote for Confederate Jasmine. The blooms only last for a month in the spring but the fragrance stays in my mind!
I vote for sweet olive - it smells absolutely wonderful.
I will agree with you txflowerlady! I have had several but I cant seem to keep them alive. My last one got blown out of the ground by Rita. I ll keep trying the sent is worth all costs!
This year I enjoyed my Phlox, purple Passionvine, Moonflowers (Jimsonweed/Datura), and my rarely blooming but has 5 blooms now Brugs! The last few days I've been wandering around trying to figure out where this really sweet fragrance was coming from. It's not in my yard and my neighbors don't have anything that would smell. Tonight I finally tracked it down to these ugly Eleaganus bushes on the side of their house. They have tiny little flowers blooming inside the bush so you can't see them. It smells wonderful! I'm glad they've kept those things now!
Forgot to mention my chocolate daisies...when they are in bloom, they are really strong and can be smelled from 10 ft. away.
Another few that I really enjoy are the lime, lemons and satsuma orange, blossoms. They are pretty, too.
-T
I think tuberose is the sweetest smelling. Mine are getting ready to bloom now, though I had a couple of blooms earlier.
Also Oriental Lilies, Moon flower, Dianthus, Sweet William.
Thanks konkreteblond on the Eleaganus bushes. I mowed by our hedge row of them yesterday and kept wondering where that sweet smell was coming from. Just couldn't figure it out. Now I know.
Whoda thunk it? You can't even see the flowers on them. They are buried down inside the bush. The smell makes up for the odd looking long shoots that come out from them. lol
Bareroots or Konkreteblond, Do you know what kind of Eleaganus bushes they are? I have been looking into multiflora but I know there are several others that are fragrant.
Heavinscent, sorry that Rita got your sweet olive. How much damage did you have? Hope it wasn't too much. We had very little damage, just downed branches, and very little rain. Although we were without electricity for a couple of days.
I have my sweet olive in a pot. Despite the fact that I have mistreated that poor thing it blooms every year. Granted the plant does not look that wonderful, but it smells wonderful.
txflowerlady, I pulled out of the ground what I could but the sweet olive was just too big. I really was heart broken, but in spring I will just have to get a new one. Many of the plants I had to leave in the ground died with the exception of a few not so happy surviors.
My house was in the 5 percent of Cameron Parish that made it. No flooding or wind driven rain(at my house) but some roof damage, Power was out for I think 2 weeks(wasnt here) and undrinkable water for almost a month. Many homes were hit by twisters and mold has been the bigest problem for those that had roof damage and rain in the house.We were sooo lucky!
Heavinscent, I am so glad that you were spared. Sorry to hear about your plants. Take care.
My neighbor's wonderful smelling bush looks like it is Elaeagnus macrophylla. Just this common bush that the builder threw in the beds. Some houses got one or two, some got none. I got the strangest combination of bushes with mine. No rhyme or reason.