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Comments (35)i can or could agree with you on some of the list, if you don't take care of your plants, i do have gold flame honeysuckle. i have it on an arch. every fall i clip it back to about 6" or so, and in the spring it comes right back up and just as beautiful as ever!! when we first bought our house, it had over a foot of dead vines under the live ones, i had to cut all that back, it was a real pain in the butt!!! now it looks great though, also on that arch is my orange trumpet vine for the hummers. and that one is very thick!! but it also has to be cut back. if you don't do this it all just dies for the next years growth anyhow. so i don't know why people wouldn't want to cut it back?? and severely!!! and the honeysuckle smells awesome!!! :') ~Medo...See Morelooking for Most fragrant plants that are hardy in my zone5/6
Comments (13)Hi there! I grew up in Pgh and know some of the plants that my mom grows now. If you have good soil and a sheltered location, you can grow datura for evening fragrance, it doesn't get very big but it will die down in the fall. My mom had no problems with it coming back and reseeding like crazy every summer. There some color variations you can get, like the white, or light purple ones, and some yellow ones too. I saw them for sale in Jung seed catalogs. Also, it's an annual but you can grow some really nice nicotiania (flowering tobacco), it smells great! My mom has a carolina allspice shrub, she loves it! Smells best in the morning. Also, for vines, moonflowers are great for night time fragrance or if you want to make an all white moon garden! You could get the moonflowers and the daturas and (if they have it) some white flowering tobacco. It smells great at night too, no matter what color it is. :) If you have shade (or plant at the base of your shrubs), you could get some viola odorata (sweet violets), there are some nice colors out there, my mom planted royal robe and queen charlotte in Pgh, and they smell wonderful! She got those from bluestone perennials, in case you need a source. Hope this helps ya! :)...See MoreWhat fragrant plant/flower is most evocative to you of Louisiana?
Comments (13)Finally a topic dear to my heart. In the last year I discovered smell. Yes Jasmine fills the garden in the evening. But then there are 4 O'clocks. And then try Angel's Trumpets. Or Acidanthera. Or Moon Flower. If you have not tried some scent gardening, you have not yet gardened. Antique roses. For most it is in the late afternoon/early evening that you have to walk the gardens to appreciate, but you have not gardened until you get past the visual and into the scent. I promise it will add an entirely new dimension to your gardening. Enjoy. Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden Journal...See MoreWhat fragrant plant/flower is most evocative to you of Tennesee??
Comments (10)OK, I've got a true native candidate, one which is a little obscure, but only because it's not well known yet. It's Prairie Phlox, Phlox pilosa. Wonderful fragrance -- you walk by a blooming clump and it just transports you to heaven. Sweet without being heavy and overpowering, but strong enough that you can catch the scent on the breeze across the yard. Like lilacs, sort of. P. pilosa starts blooming in late March and quits about mid to late July, depending on rainfall. That's an incredibly long season for a perennial. And it just covers itself up in bloom. You can tell it's one of my faves. :) It's pretty common in middle TN, I believe, as I've seen it both in the Basin and on the Rim. It may occur statewide in suitable habitat (meadows that are moist in spring, 75% to 100% sun). I first became acquainted with this delightful species here in TN, so it's evocative of the state for me. Marty...See Morelongriver
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