some help with scented flowers.

hi all,
I have very limited experience with anything to do with gardening. I did a veg patch one year but my dogs decided to eat and dig that up very quickly. i have now fenced of a area which will keep all digging paws well away.

the main reason i have joined this forum is that i have neighbours with several dogs. and im sure they do not pick up the large amounts of poo these dogs create because my and other neighbours gardens are invaded by the smell. it can be quite unbearable especially in summer when i like to do big family bbq`s.

so........im looking for some very strong relatively easy to grow plants. the only ones i really know about are jasmine and lavender. id like to find several species of plant than stink (nicely) year round or as much of the year as possible.

these plants be large or small. i have a dedicated 10 x 1 m bed for them.

thank you for any help in advance.

 

thank you for the quick reply. I will look into these plants

 

Lilies always give off a lovely smell and sweet peas for an annual fix.

 

Philadelphus is an easy shrub with highly-scented flowers. The best varieties are Belle Etoile and Beauclerk if you can find them, but coronarius is good too. If you don't mind trimming it over when it gets to the size you want, Eleagnus ebbingii is a lovely, neat evergreen with hidden but highly scented flowers in autumn.

 

You could plant a little lavender hedge at the front of the bed and have some scented climbers at the back on wall/fence. I love honeysuckle personally.

 

The ones I was going to suggest have already been mentioned, so just a little note to say Sarcococca prefers some shade, so think about how the sun goes round and pop it in the shade of another shrub.
Good luck, what a horrible problem

 

Have you thought of contacting your local Environmental Health department to make a complaint?

 

I'm with Sheal on this. It must be some stench and worthy of further investigation. My other thought was if you are not on the grid it could be a septic tank or burst pipe. Is there any factory buildings that could be the culprit like an abattoir?

 

it has been done before, not by myself but other neighbours and about other things. there was one point when their garden was full of rubbish, they had been just putting there bags outside and animals had been emptying them. that got so bad the authorities were called. but once its sorted they let it all happen again. if im completely honest I don't think they are alowedd dogs in that property, but I wouldn't want to be the one to make a phone call which could get them removed. they have kids and they love them dogs. I couldn't bring myself to do it.

 

it is definitely dog waste. if I pop my head over the fence there are piles of it everywhere

it is defo dog waste, it I pop my head over the fence there are piles everywhere.

 

I'm sure that their kids do love the dogs, keeno, but are the parents aware of the health risks of letting them play in a garden scattered with poo? There are some very nasty diseases which can be contracted through contact with animal faeces, not to mention the chance of worm infection.
http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/toxocariasis
http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/hydatid-disease-pro
Perhaps you could print off the above info and, as a concerned neighbour, not a complaining one, pass the info onto them? Failing action after that, no-one could blame you for bringing it to the attention of the health authorities. It sounds as though these people need a bit of a kick up the backside to make them realise how anti-socially they're behaving.

 

you are right. ill print it off and let them know. they have always been like it. it drives me mad but I don't want to seem like a miserable old git that keeps moaning. ill give them a knock in a bit.

 

Good luck

 

I have two Philadelphus on my property; one in one of the gardens have limey green leaves such a pretty contract against the burgundy shrub near it, and the blue feather conifer on the other side of it. Then in the other garden I have a variegated one, lime and green leaves. Both have beautiful white flowers, and smell wonderful when blooming. Just ran across a new Philadelphus that is very short, called Snow Dwarf, getting me a few for my garden slope.