What a romantic post you made, Annette! Pinks and Mock Orange are long past bloom here.

June is the time of Magnolias, Gardenias and Lilies, with an occasional bloom from Rose de Rescht and a whiff of wild honeysuckle from across the big road.

I finally rooted and planted enough Gardenias to have them from back to front so the fragrance carries. One Gardenia is sublime; a little hedge of 3 is heady.

Nell

Sorry about your roses Annette :-( Looks like most of the PNW had a hard winter.

What is blooming NOW with great fragrance? My grandma's rose in the front yard. It is a 5ft. rose with wonderful spicy smelling bright pink roses. Don't know the name of it i'm afraid. Other roses should bloom in a week or so.
Peony- my 'Sorbet' has yet to bloom, but my beloved 'Mme. Emile Debatene' is. Such a strange, yet alluring, scent.
Pinks are budding, as is my Carnation. I really need to get more Carnations.
Lilacs ended last week. Those things are heavenly when in bloom!
Iris of course, and Hall's Honeysuckle (just bought this a month or two ago, don't know if it is normally blooming now or not). Also the Wallflower, which I want more of too. I have the cultivar 'Pastel Patchwork'. I love the various colors of the flowers, which smell spicy!

One plant I find delightfully fragrant is Thalictrum flavum-glaucum. It has buds on it now, but I am pretty sure it won't bloom for a couple weeks yet. My freind doesn't think they smell all that great, but to my nose they have a really sweet scent. Love the sulfur yellow blooms.
CMK

Currently, I have the Mock Orange shrub blooming, the privet hedge and the wild multi-flora rose. Talk about overwhelming the senses! Good thing I'm not allergic.

My most fragrant plants are the Alba roses but they are long past. This morning while we were out with the mower mechanic (once again), I got a whiff of a nice smell. It was the golden vicary (privet) out in the front border by the drive. I love the smell.

Nell, the scent of Magnolias, Gardenias and lilies mingling together... be still my heart. My girlfriend has a huge Magnolia grandiflora, the flowers smell just like lemon custard, I can only imagine the fragrance you have in your garden right now. Gardenias until now I have just had as house plants, love their delicious scent. I'm going to look into the hardy Gardenia everyone has been talking about. Maybe in a protected area I could grow one?

Christin, your 'Mme. Emile Debatene' sounds intriging, must look it up. I have a hard time growing pinks now that I have so much shade but maybe I could pop some in the edges of my sunny gravel paths, I really miss them.
Hall's honeysuckle, flowers white changing to creamy yellow right? Graham Thomas is similar, actually the Graham Thomas on my fence just starting to bloom is my neighbors but my side of the fence is the sunny side, bonus for me, just like the neighbor on the other side of me gets the benefit of my Early Dutch (too lazy to look up the botanical name).
Thalictrum f. g. is fragrant? I learn something new every day, had it for years and didn't know that. It's in a spot where once everything has filled in is hard to get to but, if I get the steps , lean over the side of the lath house wall when it blooms I might be able to get a wiff :o).

C, just had a look at your Mock Orange, it is one of the scented varieties I hope. I can imagine the fragrance there must be in your garden if it is. The wild roses along our roads are blooming now, they have a delicious scent that's hard to match.

Glenda, I'm with you on the Alba roses, I don't have any myself but Felicite Parmentier is the one I'm in love with. Another thing I love is the scent of fresh mowed hay when we go for a drive in the more countryfied parts of the area where we live. Then there's the honey scent of the Cottonwoods here in the spring, life is good :o).

I just don't understand people who have no interest in gardening and the pleasure one gets from it. I guess it takes all types.

Annette

The scent of Lavender wafting through the air while I'm tending the vegetable garden makes it an enjoyable task. Only I find myself with my nose in the air instead of hoeing weeds!!

Glenda, I don't know which is the hardy Gardenia, but when we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, the gardenia on the south side of our house was killed to the ground when the temperature fell to 5 degrees one night. The bark split all the way to the ground. It put out from the roots and grew back.

Nell

Annette - I need a visual!!!!! lol. Oh yeah, and a cutting of Mock orange. The cuttings I got on trade from someone else were DOA!!

Nancy.

"C, just had a look at your Mock Orange, it is one of the scented varieties I hope."

Very much so.

Here is a picture of my Clematis Montana "Wilsonii" it has just finished blooming. Was a wonderful smell of chocolate in the yard.{{gwi:692330}}

Sue

I knew I could coax you into showing your "wilsonii" Sue, spectacular as always. Just think all that chocolate and you didn't gain an ounce. As you know we ripped ours off the lath house two years ago so I could grow my fuchsia baskets just one more time. Well now the lath house is almost covered again, it's going to take one more season to have it dripping over on all four edges.
Sue you have to post pictures of your Brugs when they're blooming, you have so many pretty ones. Talk about fragrance WOW.
I'll post some pictures in the Gallery of my 'wilsonii' a couple of rose pix, a couple of others.

Annette

Kleim Hardy gardenia is supposed to be hardy down to 10 degrees. I had one last fall that I purchased from a local nursery that swore to me it would survive our winters. It died. All the way down to the brown, shriveled roots. It could have been too wet for it. Could have been too cold. In any case, I will stick to the tried and true rooting my own from a shrub just down the street from me.

Tom, thanks for that bit of information. I was thinking I might try one in the planter around our little Koi pool, the area is enclosed with a clear fiberglas roof. I could also give it a blanket if it really got cold like it did this past winter.

Annette

To me aroma is a powerful element in a garden and just the right one can set my heart at ease and bring a smile to my face. I have tried to plant some of my favorite fragrances all around the garden so there will be delightful scents in as many places as possible
Chocolate mint to brush past when I feed the birds in the morning
Honeysuckle that fills the air by the front door and drifts into the office
Lemon balm to tussle my hands in as I step up to the porch
Corsican mint between the pavers so that when I walk across them the air is filled with their sweet scent
Oriental Lilies by the little pond to envelope you with perfume as you sit on the bench
Pineapple mint near the hydrangea so weeding is a good thing
In the spring there are hyacinths and sweet and spicy scented tulips mixed with the delicate perfume of sweet daffodils
Lavender for summer to fill the air over the big pond
Two heavenly scented lavender roses that border the bridge across the pond
Rosemary that is clean and pungent dotted all about
Bee Balm with its crisp spicy aroma and bright red flowers
Butterfly bushes all around for their sweet airy scent and butterflies
3 Climbing roses in red, yellow, and orange that smell of old fashioned roses from a place I canÂt remember.
And so many other scents that I have yet to discover and place in my garden.

Annette and bluesunflower,

Your descriptions are so poetic!
Everyone's flowers and plants sound divine.

~Annie

-Annette, that's the honeysuckle all right! I read that it gets large quick. I put it along the side of the fence to hopefully give some privacy from the neighbor.
To my nose Thalictrum flavum-glaucum has a smell. But then again I have a strange scence of smell! Just ask me to describe the scent of roses and you will get the idea, lol! I have been known to describe 'Tamora' and 'Carding Mill' as having a anice and cherry cough-drop scent, 'Graham Thomas' as having a strong sea breeze and tea rose fragrance, and 'The Dark Lady' smells like red wine and roses. Ha ha! Thank goodness I am not writing reviews for the fragrance of roses!

I adore my lovely 'Mme. Emile Debatene'! I simply cannot describe her scent (which is probably a good thing). I know I have shown this pic here too much before, but here she is again...
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This is her at her 'perfect' stage. Before she opens it looks like pink champagne bubbles floating deamily above the plant. The first opened flowers are a little more cupped, and the centers, which now have a blush of yellow/orange, are not as double. Once the flowers age the centers will become fully double and near white. A petaled moon! Can you tell I love this peony?
CMK

I love that peony too. Those are beautiful blooms and if there is a scent involved I'm in! Your scent descriptions made me laugh. I had some nearly black, deep purple tulips this spring that I was trying to place the scent of when I suddenly realized they smelled like soy sauce!