Anyone else interested in scented plants?

I LOVE my Phlox Uspech with a passion - smells absolutely gorgeous!!

 

Lovely and informative thread! I would just like to add Cercidophillum japonicum, a beautiful elegant tree, which gives off the scent of crushed strawberries/candyfloss/burnt sugar - just as the leaves are falling in autumn. Some years, you just can't notice it but now and then it's really wonderful!
All I'm getting today is the wafting smell from the muck spreader as it passes the house every hour or so!

 

The crystal tree lilies I have grown this year have an amazing scent, fills the garden in the evening, especially if there's just the hint of a breeze behind them.

 

My David Austin roses Lady Emma Hamilton and Sceptre'd Isle are smelling rather lush at the moment - two totally different fragrances.

 

Spent the day working in a garden where the Actaea Black Negligee has given off the most amazing scent all day!

 

Heliotrope Chatsworth..the perennial cherry pie..gives wonderful scent from mid summer to the present time. Take cuttings now or in spring for flowers next summer. Far, far better than the annual heliotrope marine.

 

Aaaahhh Verdun,
would love to see a picture of this. What does it smell of? Can you desribe it to me please?
Jenny

 

Well, howdy there again Jenny. Small blueish flowers, nothing overly-great to look at, but ok, but the fragrance is out of this world. Smells like cherries and vanilla. I keep 2 or 3 plants over winter in greenhouse and take cuttings in autumn or spring for more plants in the summer. Lovely near front door, seats or paths. Not the best this year coz it needs sunshine and then the volatile oils waft the fragrance.

 

I remember as a child that heliotrope was called "Cherry Pie" but my parents were not interested in gardening and I never got to smell it as a kid. "Marine" has a hint of perfume but not memorable IMHO,
Jenny

 

Hello theruralgardener, I have actea pink spike and brunette. I want to get black negligee. How do you rate this plant? Does it flower well? I guess it does if it gave off such scent?

 

Having had the pleasure now of experiencing seven different varieties of DA roses, the one I find most fragrant is Jude the Obscure (even more so than Gertrude Jekyll to my nose)

My Daphne eternal fragrance is still flowering.

Elaeagnus x ebbingei are supposed to produce fragrant flowers around this time, but not a dicky bird from any of mine

 

Merleworld, I have daphne eternal fragrance too. Been in flower for many weeks now. Mines in a pot as I can't settle on a perfect spot for it yet. Have you pruned your Eleagnus hard? I think it flowers on old wood. Stand to be corrected though.

 

Hello Verdun. Yes, it flowered well this year in a garden I look after. The main reason for using this particular Cimicifugia..sorry, Actea!! was for the foliage colour which looks good in the bed it's planted in. The bottle brush flowers were decent size and smelt wonderful. I would offer to take a photo but I'm a bit late now, the flowers and foliage have gone over..we had a couple of chilly nights early last week.

 

I've hardly pruned the Elaeagnus at all. They didn't flower last year either, even though they are a decent size

 

Plants are a bit like us I guess....stubborn. I dont grow it now as mine reverted too much but it flowers maybe when it's ready to. Had a viburnum that regularly flowered then stopped. In the neighbourhood it was much the same. I applied potash to it and to my goosegogs, and it flowered again. I've since removed the viburnum too now. Two large shrubs removed created a new bare space for me to grow some perennials etc. anyway, merleworld, hoping your Eleagnus will flower next year.