Fragrant flowers

Hello All,

Chris here from North Wales - not posted on here before - long time lurker. I do like a good lurk

I've moved into a new bungalow - tiered garden - heavy clay soil. But that's not why I'm posting on this occasion

I'm looking for some fragrant flowered plants - that I can plant outside my bedroom window in a container. Summer time, I always leave the window open at night. It would be lovely to have a perfumed waft in the warm Summer evenings.

Any recommendations welcome.



Have a good 'un.

 

Croeso to Gardeners Corner

No good me recommending any, can't smell very well Someone will be along in a bit

 

Welcome to GC Clanless

Does your bedroom face south?....A nice window box crammed with Lavender would be good

 

Hi Clanless If you want annuals, there's Heliotrope, Petunia / Surfinia, Zaluskyana, Mignonette and Sweet Peas (climbing or bushy). I'd go for tender shrubs, though...Brugmansia or Cestrum nocturnum both have the most incredible scent in the evenings

 

Hi Clanless,
Night scented stock, many of the petunias have a lovely perfume, violas, pansies...
Jenny namaste

 

Thanks for the welcome everyone - lots of good recommendations . I'll try a mix of the recommended plants in a large trough. Ebay here I come.

The bedroom faces East - not too good for a lie in - as the morning sun lights up the whole room!

It's going to take sometime to get the garden round (especially given the awful clay soil), so I've planted up a range of pots with spring flowering bulbs. I'm really looking forward to next Spring - it should be very colourful.

 

Honeysuckle smells gorgeous!!!

Val

 

Welcome to GC.

I would go with any of the above recommendations, but why e-bay, you could grow from seed, will be a lot less expensive, and you will know the plants have been looked after.

 

Nicotiana perhaps.

 

How much sun does it get? ie; is there a patio area outside the window so that the plant could be further away fro the house to get more sun? I ask because this Brugmansia grows next to the east facing wall of the shed.....................


Brugs are uber fragrant of an evening!

If I were being mischievous then I could say that this is fragrant .....................


..............but probably not what you had in mind

 

Night Scented Stock for me too ... longest period of blooming amongst the various choices, I reckon. They look pants though ... so not brilliant if you want something that's a looker ... but ... at night ... tops

 

A couple of scented bulbous plants that can be pot grown;

Acidanthera murieliae (buy the largest bulbs you can find) blooms late summer.....................


Hymenocallis festalis will need a good summer, but is outstanding! Bulbs need to be at least 70 to 80mm in diameter to bother with.....................

 

I can't think of anything more beautiful, fragrant, dramatic, easy and cheaply available than oriental lilies.

 

What Christo Lloyd referred to, I think, as "Keyhole Flowers" - due to the overpowering fragrance his view was that you should only have a keyhole of a closed door between you and the flowers!

Problem I have with most of these suggestions, from the O/P's PoV, is that they are going to be over in a couple of weeks :( although if there is space "round the back" a number of containers could be grown, for different seasons, and then moved into place when they are at their zenith.

 

That's asking a heck of a lot, to be fragrant and also last for many weeks. Lilies are brilliant for the "rotating containers" trick, though.

I think Christo was being an uncharacteristic wimp when he said that!