A lot of things aren't really suitable for rooting in water and may deteriorate sitting in water instead of being stuck directly in rooting medium in a covered box, frame or mist bench.

LOL @ Mary and treelvr, a little DOES go a long way, hah! I love chaparral sage too, and you''re right, Mary, too much water, especially in summer, will kill it quickly. My established plants only get watered every other week in summer and once a month in winter. Fun plants, and fun discussion. If you get one Glendale_gardener, keep us posted! Happy gardening!

Some crab apples are very fragrant -- dolgo, for example. And don't forget the marvelous family of linden trees. Check out the rose forum for fragrant hardy shrub roses -- one called Quietness is much liked by people over there. I think it is fragrant. The rugosa roses are also very fragrant as are some of the old roses, such as stanwell perpetual. Clethra is a fragrant shrub for the month of August. I also think bayberry smells very nice, and the bayberry relative comptonia peregrina, which looks like a fern. You could also try the hayscented fern, a true fern, and some of the herbal plants, such as the mints and sweet woodruff (though they can be weedy), camomile and thyme. Then there is lily of the valley -- more of a ground cover than a shrub, but a very welcome one. Also not shrubs -- in the cooler states, lilies grow very well and some of them are wonderfully fragrant. The speciosums bloom late. A lot of the fragrant plants are early bloomers, but not phlox, which blooms in July and August. There are also some fragrant asters and chrysanthemums and one or two very fragrant hostas, such as plantaginea and Aphrodite. Dianthus, a perennial is also very fragrant. And there is the bulb, lycoris squmigera. And annual flowers such as four-o-clocks and nicotiana. A few of the daylilies are fragrant, such as the lemon lily, and some, like Hemerocallis citrina, are fragrant at night. I like the fragrance of Buddleia "Cornwall Blue" and of Caryopteris. The thing to do is look around and see what grows well and smells sweet in your own neighborhood and then try to get some of that.

OGRose, Texas kidney wood is worth searching out. They are very drought tolerant so do well in an out of the way place that it's hard to get water to. I see them growing and blooming along fence lines in some undeveloped areas on the outskirts of San Antonio. In fact I had one almost die that was in a bed I watered frequently. Another one on the side of the house never gets irrigated. Kathy, that's too bad about the headache. Artificial scents such as room spray and perfumes sometimes give me a headache, but never got one from natural scents.