Smart gardening means doing our best to reduce our footprint in today’s pollution and improve the health of our family and our planet. This is why including herbs and vegetables in your garden is very important. But this doesn’t mean we must sacrifice any beauty and fragrance. In fact, perfumed plants can encourage beneficial insects to the garden and improve pollination. Gardens should delight all the senses. They should look beautiful, include tasty produce and smell gorgeous. So make sure you add fragrant plants in your garden. Here are some of the best scented flowers that will transform your backyard into a fragrant paradise…
Lavender
French lavender (Lavandula dentata) flowers from autumn right through until late spring, producing masses of perfumed flower spikes on a plant about one meter tall. Plant as a hedge for colour and fragrance for much of the year.
Jasmine
A fragrant evergreen climber, jasmine flowers profusely throughout spring and then produces batches of scented blooms on and off during the summer months.
Freesia
Bursting through the soil from late winter and flowering right throughout spring, leave a few freesias in the garden year after year. When left to naturalise, the sweetly scented flowers will keep blooming each spring, giving you a better display every year.
Tuberose
If you’re a gardener who loves scent, you’ll flip for tuberose. This bulb produces tall flower spikes with numerous tubular blooms and a fragrance that is rich, sultry and seductive.
Roses
Praised for their rich colors and luxurious shapes with a subtle aroma that varies among species, there are over 100 different species. Roses requires a lot of sunlight, frequent pruning and fertilization, but their beauty, complexity, and complexity, and intoxicating fragrance are extremely rewarding.
Daffodils
With all the easy grow traits of daffodils only much more fragrant, are ideal in pots where their perfume can be brought straight to your door. And they are just as popular indoors as cut flowers. Place a bunch in the bathroom for a constant supply of spring fragrance.
Syringa or Lilac
A cool climate favorite, lilac is a star-shaped reddish purple flower which appear in large dramatic clusters in early spring. The scent is spicy sweet,the essence of spring.
Philadelphus or Mock Orange
With the strong smell of orange blossom, hence their common name of mock orange, are frost hardy and easy to grow in sun or light shade. Flowering from late spring throughout early summer, the profusion of white blooms fills the garden with their glorious aroma.
Boronia
A fragrant Australian native, boronia produces its famed perfume not from the flowers but from the foliage. They prefer constantly moist, free-draining soil. Cut for use in a vase inside, they flower from spring through summer.
Stock or Matthiola incana
A brilliantly scented annual flowering from late winter through spring, stock -Mathiola incana is an excellent cut flower which is best collected from your garden first thing in the morning. Varying in height from 15cm right up to around 90cm, there is a variety of stock for each situation. Sow seed in January and February in warm climates and from September to December in cooler areas for flowers next spring
Wisteria
With a delicate sweet perfume, wisterias help to create an outdoor scene that’s ideal for outdoor entertaining in spring. Deciduous, wisterias create a canopy of shade from the summer sun, while allowing the winter sun to penetrate and warm the area, giving you the best of every season.
Hyacinths
Great in pots or on a windowsill in a bulb vase, hyacinths come in a variety of colors, each has a slightly different fragrance, much like individual roses, so you’ll have to grow a few to find your favorite.
Make Your Garden a Fragrant Paradise With These Flowers
