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Favorite Fragrant Plants
I've got quite the nose.
Good point, Julie.
Victor and Dave!
Looks like I let the cork out of the bottle when I mentioned oenophiles.
Pirl, the carlesii (Korean spice viburnum) have pink buds, but the mature flowers are pure white. Mine are about 4 ft high (6 yrs. old) but the Wayside catalog says they can get up to 8 ft. I had one at my previoius home and it never got bigger than 5 ft.
Mine is 5 years oid and 4-5 ft. I read somewhere to plant it near your door and I did. It's great every Spring.
Funny, Don. You did!
I'll have to get one and put it next to the porch door.
You have a few fragrant Viburnum to pick from. Cayuga (Carlesii is one of the 'parents'), Juddii and Mohawk are all nice fragrant ones. Cayuga and Mohawk get a nicer Fall color than the others.
Great. Thanks, Victor.
Roses - some more than others.... I love Royal Amethyst... it's so nice... all the rugosas I have are really great...
Rosemary.... I just absolutly love the smell of rosemary....
Lemon Eucaliptus... I love it!!!!
Lavender ... so sweet!!!
i'm growing sweetgrass this year - maybe my favorite scent in the world... last year i wanted some but it was too late - i had had no idea they were so difficult to acquire!
i got 3 plants in the mail in may, 1 i planted in the ground, and it isn't doing so great, but the 2 in planters are doing well...
i love the scent of lavender, and rosemary, and my black peppermint.
the firewitch dianthus i have smell kinda nice - more herby than flowery...
most "fragrant" flowers are too overpowering to me - i am afraid of lillies because of those stargazer lilies that seem to appear in WAY too many arrangements - ugh. i can smell them from a mile away. and i've never liked the smell of roses. (or the mums the property owners put in last year.) lilacs smell nice from a distance - so does honeysuckle, but i'd never grow either one.
marigolds and cleomes just smell yucky - deer and woodchucks may find them repellent, but so do i!
i have a white salvia that i'd happily give to anyone who'd dig it up - i try not to touch it myself - whenever i do i have an overpowering desire to see if my deodorant is working! i ignore it completely and still it grows.
amy
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Here is my V.carlesii which was planted in the early 80's on May 9th this year with it's pink buds that open to a pure white. A real love. Patti
Great colors there!
Thanks, Pirl, Here it is in it's all white phase. No scent can match it in my opinion. It was in good scent for a couple of weeks. Patti
Here it is today from the upper window that I took this AM. I trim it back just after it finishes blooming, so it is a little lolly poppish now, but come spring it will have a more relaxed shape. Patti
It's lovely and I have a neighbor with it so I know how nice the scent is. What a glorious view! You could do one of those "From My Window" photo essays with views like that!
Sweetgrass sounds nice. Do you leave the pots outside for the Winter Amy, or bring them inside? I'm not familiar with it at all.
I agree on the Viburnum. 'Cayuga' comes from carlesii.
When the irises around my patio are in bloom, the scent is heavenly. Once they are done, there is something on Long Island that goes into bloom. It's a tree with white flowers and that's another breathe deeply favorite. Of course theres the lilac. I can't wait for the one by the patio to get bigger and bloom. I also have a pink phlox [tall] that's incredible. I usually have to fight with the butterflies to smell it.
Any flowers that have a scent I love. Peonies, hyacinth( I have woodstock that look great every year), lilac(remind me of my grandmas in Edmonton Canada), roses, I have a wonderful smelling Daphne right by our front door.I can't even begin to name them all.
Does anyone have the new chocalate cosmos??? I would love to get that.
This Fine Gardening list of fragrant plants may be of interest:
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00139.asp
Well, I have 10 out of 14 on the list - not bad for a newbie!
I would certainly not consider Butterfly Bush as fragrant, but I guess some do. As I said at the beginning, fragrance is a very personal thing and plants are often described as fragrant if they have any discernible scent at all.
I have White Profusion butterfly bush - and the scent is like strong honey. It's really delightful and butterflies really do love it!
Really?!! I'm surprised to hear that. None of mine ever smelled like anything close to honey.
My white ones are all the results of the wild self-seeding so none of them have any fragrance. Maybe I could spray them with perfume.
Really? I thought the whole point of planting a butterfly bush was its fragrance . . .
I planted because of the butterflies!!! I must bend and try to see if they smell like anything.... mine are really small bushes!!!
An annual I use for hanging baskets that smells wonderful is Nemesia. Like Seandor, I also love the scent of Wallflowers; have a bright orange one this year, not sure which species. Last year I had Erysimum Perofskianum (Blistercress), bright yellow, which smelled even better.
Agastaches, Monardas, and Lavendars..... Mmmmm!
I have a 'Yellow Silk Ruffles' daylily that's fragrant and blooming right now. I give it a sniff everytime I pass by on the way to the car. Got to work the other day, and was informed about 20 minutes later that I had a yellow nose. Guess I got too close, hee hee.
Got all of those except the Blistercress - I will have to look this up in the plantfile.
Well, I'm surprised that no one's mentioned my favorite (it's on the link to taunton.com's top 15 fragrant) - flowering tobacco! I plant it everywhere. I also enjoy getting wafts of fragrance from spurge in Spring, and milkweed at this time of year.
i didn't know tobacco would grow so far north!
i love the smell of it, and all the nicotiana i have found doesn't smell like much. i had no idea i could grow the real thing!
amy
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I think it was mentioned earlier. Someone else said - and I agreed - that we never smelled much from the Nicotiana we had tried.
From all I've read N. sylvestris, at 48", is the most fragrant but when I had it I didn't notice any strong scent at all.
yes - i was agreeing - my surprise was that tobacco can grow in MA. i think of it as more of a southern thing (though i thing of myself that way too, and here i am in CT...)
in respose to a MUCH earlier post (sorry):
i'm not sure what i'll do with the sweetgrass. the one in the bigger planter is doing great, and i just put the other into a bigger pot and it seems happier. i had only planned on leaving one in a pot, to move around with me, because it smells so lovely. i was going to plant 2, but the one in the ground just keeps getting smaller...
sigh.
it is supposed to overwinter in the wild just fine, but maybe the potted ones should come in for the really cold times. i've got to look into it in more detail...
amy
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(victor - are you near piermont NY?)
Tobacco grows in Ontario as well.
I have both Gardenia and Jasmine in bloom. Heaven!
You can grow Jasmine??? what kind?
Forgot the variety. It's in a pot and has to be brought inside for the Winter of course.
Oh - I thought you were going it along a fence or something. I have a gardenia in a pot about to bloom . . .
Wish I could.
Lazy S's Farm sells a Jasmine that they swear is good to zone 5. I bought it. I think it's called Stephanum or something like that. I have it in a pot and brought it into my garage this past winter. The garage made it to 30 degrees and it's doing great. I might try planting it in the ground this fall.
Harper