Follow Your Nose
Who doesn’t love a plant that not only produces flowers that are beautiful to look at, but also beautiful to smell? There are so many flowering scented plants that we just love, but as usual I cannot possibly mention them all. So, here are just a few of our favourites.
Gardenias
Professor Pucci Gardenia: Known for producing especially enormous, double, creamy-white flowers, Professor Pucci is a beautiful cultivar. Apart from admiring its dark green, glossy foliage, the plants sweetly fragrant blossoms from summer through to winter can also be admired. Professor Pucci looks great as a potted specimen or as a shrub in your garden and grows well in a sunny to partly shaded position. Professor Pucci grows to a height and width of up to 1.2m.
Four Seasons Gardenia: Four Seasons is a low-growing evergreen shrub that blooms from summer to winter. Its delicate white blossoms have a lovely aroma and their slender petals are often curled and have a hint of starry outline. Compared to other gardenias, the leaves are thinner. This plant works well for hedges, bulk planting or a single specimen. It can be utilized in large containers. This lovely example of a gardenia is low-maintenance and grows to a height and width of 1m.
Florida Gardenia: These gardenias are gorgeous evergreen shrubs, have lustrous, dark green leaves and have beautifully scented large, double, milky white flowers. You can enjoy the beautiful scent of the exquisitely shaped blossoms in late spring and throughout the warmer months. Perfect as pot or container plants, they can be placed next to windows so that you can appreciate their scent. These gardenias grow well in full sun to partly shaded positions. Gardenia Florida can reach heights of 1.5m and widths of 1.2-1.5m.
Low Border or specimen plants
Roses: There are a multitude of roses to choose from. Our absolute favourite is called the Fragrance King Rose. This beauty is perfect for pots as they only grow to a height of 70cm. This gorgeous rose plant produces salmon pink flowers, which give off an exceptional scent. These plants are great for the garden, the balcony or patio. You may stimulate more blooms by regularly pruning after each flush of flowers.
Lavender: Who does not love lavender? Not only do the flowers give off a scent that can naturally calm your mood, but the picked flowers can be dried and used as potpourri or as a room freshener. Also… gone are the days of buying just ‘lavender’. There are so many to choose from these days, that there is just not enough time to mention them all. Here are just two of our favourites…
Lavender Sensation Blue: Lavender Sensation Blue is a naturally bushy, rounded plant that produces masses of beautiful purple flowers in autumn, winter and spring, with lavender-blue 'wings'. It's the perfect shrub for a garden because it thrives in a variety of environments and is hardy. Lavender Sensation Blue is a highly adaptable plant that may be utilised in many different garden scenarios, such as bordering or hedging large areas. A striking specimen for patio containers, rockeries and cottage gardens, which grows well in the full sun and is a low-maintenance, resilient species that is waterwise.
Lavender English: English lavender is a fragrant shrub that blooms in the winter and spring. It has thin, grey-green leaves and slim stalks that hold fragrant purple flowers. Compared to French or Italian lavender, this type is far more resilient to an array of climates. English lavender not only repels insects, borers and fleas, but it also attracts bees and other pollinators greatly. This hardy species will help with pollination and keep pests away if planted next to citrus trees or vegetable gardens. Ideal for rockeries, cottage gardens, hedges and pots.
Climbers: Let’s just talk about our favorite… Jasmine!
Jasmine Polyanthum: What’s not to love? This plant is an evergreen vigorous climber. Jasmine grows in both sprawling and climbing forms, with masses of fragrant white star-shaped blooms that open from pink buds in late winter into spring. The leaves have a glossy dark green colour. This hardy climbing plant has many uses and can be cultivated as a climber on a pergola or fence. Additionally, it grows well as a groundcover plant, creating a thick, low carpet of foliage. This popular jasmine variety can be grown in full sun to almost full shade. They can also withstand drought conditions once they are established. Fences and other garden structures can be trained to be covered by jasmine and can also act as a great screening plant reaching a height of 6m and a stretch of 3m.
Thanks for reading! Hope you all get to enjoy the multitude of fragrances that plants can offer us 🙂
Until next time… Happy Gardening!
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