I'm starting fresh and would like to create a garden that consists of flowers of fragrance that will last year round. I know all flowers do not live year round but I would like to plant a variety as to when one ends it's season another one is beginning it's season.
I've never gardened before so you are working with a NOVICE!
I like Stargazers, Casa Blancas, Gardenias adn Tulips
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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Some of my favorite fragrance plants are shrubs; large as they are they add fragrance to a big area....
Spring
Lilac (Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Pochahontas', for early, S. x 'Sensation' for mid-spring, Viburnums are amazing V. carlessii and its offspring V. x carlcephalum and V. x juddii are the finest in my mind, V. farreri, offers a big scent in a smaller size. MAny of the Daphnes offer big nose this time of year as well...For trees the catalpas are a fave; despite their messy nature that big fragrance and showy flowering are worth the tidying...
Summer
The lilacs are replaced by buddleia (the English call it summer lilac for a reason). Plants like Calycanthus bloom all summer, and Clethra alnifolia can be found in the wild (but buy some for the garden; wild collecting is wrong). Our native azaleas like Rhododendron viscosum and R. vaseyi offer huge payoffs for the nostrils and are easiest in wetter sites. For the trees it has to be Syringa reticulata, or if you can find it and are warm enough Styrax obassia. or fragrant snowbell. It's hard to find, and slow, but an amazing tree...
I need to think about fall and winter, already thinking of subshrubs and the like to fill in the previous lists (lavender, anyone?)
HG
Spring
Lilac (Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Pochahontas', for early, S. x 'Sensation' for mid-spring, Viburnums are amazing V. carlessii and its offspring V. x carlcephalum and V. x juddii are the finest in my mind, V. farreri, offers a big scent in a smaller size. MAny of the Daphnes offer big nose this time of year as well...For trees the catalpas are a fave; despite their messy nature that big fragrance and showy flowering are worth the tidying...
Summer
The lilacs are replaced by buddleia (the English call it summer lilac for a reason). Plants like Calycanthus bloom all summer, and Clethra alnifolia can be found in the wild (but buy some for the garden; wild collecting is wrong). Our native azaleas like Rhododendron viscosum and R. vaseyi offer huge payoffs for the nostrils and are easiest in wetter sites. For the trees it has to be Syringa reticulata, or if you can find it and are warm enough Styrax obassia. or fragrant snowbell. It's hard to find, and slow, but an amazing tree...
I need to think about fall and winter, already thinking of subshrubs and the like to fill in the previous lists (lavender, anyone?)
HG