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Is fragrance on your f-ing list?

10 years ago

I think many (and probably most) gardeners place a premium on form, foliage, and flowers, but fragrance seems to no longer be so important. I guess the consumer has to see it to appreciate it. This Daphne is currently perfuming our garden. Ahhhh...

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  • 10 years ago

    Can you tell us what type of Daphne that is? There are a number of daphnes and their fragrances vary. D. odora seems to be the best, but also temperamental. I smelled 'Eternal Fragrance' and it just didn't have the same fragrance at all.

    By the way, we don't see much Clematis armandii grown around here, but at the nursery, there was one called 'Snowdrift' that smelled just like Citrus flowers. Amazing.

    Other good fragrances in my yard are the late fall blooms of Osmanthus x fortunei, Eleagnus 'Giltedge', and believe it or not my Nellie Stevens Holly in spring is quite nice. Casablanca lilies are great too!

    Potted tuberoses in the summer are amazing. They are not hardy here though.


  • 10 years ago

    I'm pretty sure it's the ubiquitous 'Carol Mackie'. My spouse planted it about eight years ago, but she doesn't spend much time concerning herself with cultivar names. Last night I could pick up the fragrance from about 15'.

  • 10 years ago

    Viburnum burkwoodii, roses, Nicotiana all make my list, but some fragrances (including Daphne) I find unpleasantly overpowering and inclinded to kick up allergic reactions. So fragrance is for me at times a positive, but at other times something I plant so I am always be upwind of it.

  • 10 years ago

    f-ing list? Is that a Canadian thing?

    My all time favorite HT rose is 'Jardins de Bagatelle', nothing else comes close.

    Magnolia virginiana especially about 4PM onwards, very intense

    Tea olive, smells of apricots, sweet & perfumy

    Mockorange, in full bloom now, some more fragrant than others.

    American Fringetree, in full bloom now, very sweet, drifts with the wind.

    'Sweet October' Camellia, very sweet and welcome in the fall.

    'Juddi' viburnum, sweet, maybe a little overpowering.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------these three on the bad list, DO NOT PLANT

    Japanese Honeysuckle, no doubt introduced because of the intoxicating fragrance, nothing like on a hot, summer evening, sadly a horrible weedy vine.

    Autumn Olive, sweet & showy flowers, silvery foliage but a horrible, weedy pest.

    Kudzu, showy purple September flowers smelling like grape soda, one of our worst weeds.

  • 10 years ago

    Right now I'm enjoying my clematis Montana which perfumes the whole back yard. I have a noid old azalea that just finished blooming and smells amazing. Now my gold flame honeysuckle is starting to bloom and I'll be able to smell it throughout the front yard and wafting in the open windows. Love fragrant plants!

  • 10 years ago

    "f-ing list? Is that a Canadian thing?"

    LOL. No, not Canadian, but Canada is starting to look pretty good.

    It's nice to see others have a place for fragrance. I think I violated every principle of landscape design by the placement of Philadelphus coronarious 'Aureus' and Dwarf Korean Lilac on a standard at the main entrance of our house. I've also got Korean Spice Viburnum within scent of these two. Fragrance over function. ;)

  • 10 years ago

    Also Abelia mosanensis and Abeliophyllum distichum. Like my Daphne mezereum (in April), Abelia mosanensis fill the yard with fragrance (in June).