I've had a giddy feeling for the past two weeks. We still plenty of snow on the ground, but I'm filled with anixous excitment. Spring is 54 days away & I can hardly wait. I can almost smell the daffodils blooming!

Butterfly, thanks for the detailed info. If it can be maintained under 3-4", I can live with it. I am going to check that nursary again in the fall when the plants are on sale. Freki, Marquest, excellent choices. Plant some annual in between might be another solution. Frankly, among all the fragant blooming plants, annuals, preannual, shrubs, trees, the longest lasting fragrant and wafted plant I have is the old fashion petunia. It blooms none stop ever since it started . Boy, I love its sweet scent!. In spring time, I have tons of fragrant flowers blooming. lilac, mock orange, sweet william, flowers from various bulbs, iris, etc. which last till sometime in June. after that,there aren't many fragrant in the air. I try to fill the gaps. Butterfly bush zoned to grow in 5 but in reality does not grow/flower reliablbly here. I planted summersweet this spring. it started to bloom in mid-later July. It is done blooming now. Its scent is not as strong and waft as I thought it would be. It may due to its first year, the root system has not fully established yet. Do you have summersweet grow in your yard? What is your comment on this plant? I did bought a clematis few weeks ago, Sweet Autum. It is supposed to bloom around late Aug to Sept. But it is stilll in container, has not been planted in the ground yet. Does anyone know if there is a fragant trumpet vine that grow in zone 5? My neighbot has one with very showy salmon/orange flowers,beautiful leaves, but has no scent. I thought knock-out roses are not scented? How strong is the scent? If you get one, please post some commets on its scent.

I say Yeay for you, congrats on getting it to bloom! Is it one of the 'chocolate' scented orchids? I've not had much luck growing oncids. Don't know how many Sharry Baby plants I've watched die. I finally have one that might make it and bloom for me in the spring season.

I'd go with honeysuckle :-) European honeysuckle, aka woodbine, Lonicera periclymenum, is a vigorous, hardy vine, noninvasive and with beautiful, fragrant and often two-toned flowers. They seem to be especially fragrant at night - that fragrance carries a long distance in the warmth and stillness of a summer night :-). Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.