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Our gardens are more beautiful than ever today , but they miss , more often than not , what was once considered the garden ’s bang-up enchantment , and that is fragrance .
I often inquire why we do not domesticate fragrance in our gardens more than we do .
The joy incur from the sweet odor of growing things is of a deep and lasting nature . We are told there is really king in sweet scent .
For wide use of a garden , both immediate and in memory , a fragrance is a necessity .
Fragrance Spring Through Frost
If we are careful in our selections of shrubs we can have continuous fragrancy from them from early bound until frost the whole season through . permit us consider a few of these shrubs .
Heading the tilt isLonicera fragrantissimaor winter honeysuckle . The intensely fragrant , creamy - snowy flowers appear on simple branch in belated March , extending into April and sometimes into May . The fragrancy will pervade the whole garden .
This shrub is all right for backdrop planting as it farm from six to eight foot marvellous . The making love full-bodied , well - drain grease just like any other fragrant plant in this list .
We must be sure to includeMagnolia stellatain the planting , the next in parliamentary law of flush . When these lead - like blossoms unfold in early April , their honeyed scent is another delight of former bounce .
This magnolia is considered the hardiest of them all . It turn as a great shrub or small tree diagram and is best used as a specimen plant .
The dark green foliage grows very dense and if planted in direct sunshine will turn bronze in the fall . Sometimes a recent springtime frost will mar the blossoms , so if engraft with a northern exposure the blossom opening is retarded and thus protected from the low temperature .
Fragrant Viburnum
Next come the fragrant Viburnum , Carlesi and Burkwoodi .
The gardenia - same bouquet of these two bush will pervade a large area of the garden in recent April . Of the two , I prefer the older varietyViburnum carlesii . It is of more compact outgrowth .
The flower buds are coral - colored , opening into star - shaped flowers that are much more sweet perfumed than those ofViburnum Burkwoodi .
Then there is the hardier , blooming more profusely with larger blossoms and much more fragrant . In fact it is called the fragrant snowball . This isViburnum carlcephalum .
Lilac Fragrance Of May
In all America it is the lilac that chiefly scents the May reality and is the shrub that is the most loved and wide grown . Few shrubs are more highly odorous than the old - fashioned purple and ashen kinds .
This is the sweet scent that brings back thoughts of school desks , honest-to-goodness homesteads and masses of lavender bloom along the old fence . Their varieties are too numerous to refer , thedwarf Korean lilacis an first-class choice , but one I peculiarly love isSyringa laciniataor the cutleaf lilac .
The leafage is unco attractive with leaves that are modest and deeply lobed , arrive at it an excellent garden subject throughout the time of year . The efflorescence are shoots 12 to 14 inches long literally covered with pale lilac flowers which are deliciously scented .
Syringa laciniatadoes not seem to be as subject to mold as many of the other lilac .
The fringe - tree;Chionanthus virginicus , is a confining relative of the lilac and bloom about a workweek afterward . It produces wanton panicles of fleecy white prime . Another name , “ old man ’s beard , ” describes it slightly .
This tree diagram - corresponding shrub grows about ten feet tall , prefer full sun and contributes much to the scented garden with these sag clusters of feathery petaled fragrant peak .
Mock Orange or Philadelphus
The mock - orangeness orPhiladelphus lewisiibrings dulcet smell to the garden in June .
Like the lilac it was one of the first shrubs to be brought to this land and implant in the dooryards of - the other settlers .
With many new hybrids , these perfumed scented plants are even more marked .
Philadelphus virginalisis perhaps the most popular of the double - flowered mock - oranges , but one old - timekeeper that excels in fragrance is ‘ Belle Etoile , ’ also called fragrant star mock - orange .
The delicious fragrance from these adept - comparable blossoms , with centers that show a decided unclouded regal - flush , will permeate the entire garden .
One planted beside an open windowpane this delicious fresh smell can enter a room and leave memories not soon forgotten . The mock Orange River will expand arid blossom in light shade .
Related–>Pittosporum Tobiraalso bonk as the “ Dwarf Mock Orange . ”
Another fragrant mock - orange type industrial plant isChoisya ternata know as the Mexican orange blossom .
Carolina AllSpice
Calycanthus occidentalis , the old - fashioned sweet bush or Carolina allspice , is indispensable in the , fragrant garden . Its Ellen Price Wood , leaves , and sober dark red prime emit an elusive ‘ savoury fragrance ’ from former summertime through late summer .
This shrub is native to the southerly state and has been grown in garden from the time America was colonized .
Stories are told that land children would foot the pungent flowers , tie them in the corner of their handkerchiefs and take them to school to facilitate revive their spirits from long tedious hours .
Also pop in the south is the fragrantSweet Almond bush – Aloysia Virgata .
Hydrangea Quercifolia
Theoakleaf hydrangea(Hydrangea quercifolia ) – is one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs that can be grown in the garden , and unknown to say it is seldom used .
The bloom are much like those of thecommon Hydrangea paniculata , although much larger . They are pay in enormous conical head in June .
When they first open , they appear as small white efflorescence and as the season march on they turn to a rosy hue , and at matureness they have a purple cast . When in full blossom the plant ’s sweet scent permeates the whole garden .
If this shrub never had a flower it would be deserving growing for its leafage . As the name inculpate the leave are shaped like elephantine oak leaves and they also change in color during the season , turning to a beautiful bronze .
Of easy civilisation , the oakleaf hydrangea will develop in shade or in full surf .
Clethra Alnifolia
Clethra alnifolia or sweet pepper bush is another scented shrub excellent for fragrant summer blooming .
It is native to the easterly seacoast . Around Massachusetts it is called “ sailor ’s pleasure ” because the sailor coming into port would get thelily of the vale flowerlike scent when still far out at sea .
Clethra is a shrub of compact growth , growing about four feet gamy with finger - like clusters of its sweetly odorous livid or pinkish buzzer - shaped flowers .
Clethra rosea is the pink variety . The blossoms blow over into a pyramidal cluster of small fatal seed resembling white pepper corns , hence the name pepper bush . This fragrant white flower bush also likes a semi - shaded moist location .
To complete the fragrant summer garden are the many varieties of honey sweet-scented buddleia with their farseeing time of year of bloom , and the strongly aromatic Vitex macrophylia or chaste tree which will bloom until frost .
These shrub are all of easy polish but need fair weather . Severe pruning of both butterfly bush and vitex is sometimes necessary , sometimes to the ground , but they will always come back with lucullan emergence and attractive spike of fragrant flower .
range of a function : dw_ross|Viburnum|Lilac|Mock Orange|Carolina allspice|Hydrangea|Clethra
