Anyone else interested in scented plants?

Akebia quinata creeper/climber is said to smell of chocolate

 

My Daphne Eternal Fragrance is coming into flower again. Apparently it flowers from March through to September continuously, but because mine was quite young it only had a few branches it could flower on. Now it's grown a bit the new growth is producing more flowers. Can't wait until it's bigger and I can enjoy a much longer flowering period.

 

Does it have a strong scent? I've just been bought one as a present apparently so I'm looking forward to it arriving.

Does anyone have an abeliophyllum? Does it need to be grown against a south facing wall? I'd quite like one because of the time of year it flowers, but it'd need to be grown in a SW facing bed. And does it smell strongly?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17233766

10 apparently!

 

Honeysuckle Lonicera 'Graham Thomas' is at its best now, and smells wonderful - but only at night, when the moths are about. I can't detect much daytime scent at all.





AkkaN, I haven't grown abeliophyllum so I'm afraid I can't help.

 

Excellent thread I am off to my local nursery tomorrow armed with a list.

Trying to persuade the better half that a Magnolia grandiflora would fit somewhere.

Fingers crossed

Thanks again

 

It's a great idea for a thread, I grew some stocks from seed last year the packet proclaimed the would have a "mind blowing fragrance" but sadly they hardly wiffed of anything. So I for one would be glad of more info about what plants are what

 

I love scented plants too!! Have some lovely nicotiana in at the moment for that evening scent.....but my favourite although a little boring has to be Elderflower!! I didn't realise we had a tree growing through the hedgerow at the side of the garden until I went out one evening and got the beautiful sweet scent drifting on the wind took me straight back to picking them as a child for my dad's wine making

Nemesia has that lovely vanilla scent to it.....

I'm not a great fan of some of the very floral smelling roses but I appreciate them all the same.

 

I really love scented flowers, and at this time of year my garden smells beautiful. It starts with Clematis Montana Alba which you can only smell when there is a really dense collection of flowers, then goes on to Philadelphia Belle Etoile [in my opinion the best smelling of all the mock oranges], roses Compassion, Abraham Derby, and an anonymous yellow rose. Then there are several honeysuckles and rose Buff Beauty, the hymenocallis which are flowering now and have a lovely hyacinth like scent, some freesias, the Paul's Himalayan Musk and lastly the few remaining lily of the valley flowers. Still to come is the clematis heracleifolia Wyevale, which flowers later in summer, and all the lilies. Oh, and of course the honey fragrance of the buddleias.
As I get older I find my sense of smell deteriorating:( but i can still smell all these. Last year i grew the Zaluzianskayas capensis and ovata, but sadly could not detect any smell for them.
In winter I have the Fragrantissima honeysuckle and also Purpusii with their lovely red heart shaped berries much loved by blackbirds, and I did have the Sarcococca confusa mentioned earlier but could not get it to thrive, lots of bulbs, and several Vyburnums, the best for me being Carlesii, round globular clusters of heavenly scent.

 

A couple to throw into the mix; Lilium formosanum has a lovely strong scent, especially at night, you can smell it many yards away..

And Lobelia valida delft blue (a tender perennial variety) is amazing...

 

Thanks for the tip about the lobelia, Bilbo. I didn't know about that one.

 

I've got seed here I think Clare that I collected off my plant last year, if you'd like some PM me your address

 

Thank you, Bilbo, that's most kind.

 

when people think of scented plants it's usually the scented white flowered plants that come to mind, but I love the scent of Cytisus battandieri, and other types of Cytisus have a lemon type smell. I have Genista porlock with is an evergreen cross between Cytisus (Genista) Monpessuala spp? and Cytisus (Genista) racemosus, the smell in Spring is nothing short of heaven.

Not to forget also Lemon plants, mine is flowering outside at the moment and it fills the air with an amazing scent.

 

Sorry, only just caught up with this thread. It does have a strong scent, which is divine The flippin' slugs have eaten the new flowers, but there are new ones coming through as well.

Some of the roses I've bought recently smell gorgeous - there's a list in the David Austin catalogue of which ones are most fragrant so I've gone for a few of those.