![]() ![]() The best thing about fragrant vines is they create their flowers where it matters most – at nose-level. ' Scentsation’ Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum) This shade-tolerant native shrub also offers outstanding fall color, so its appeal lasts well beyond its bloom time. Little Henry itea has been beloved by gardeners for 15 years for its compact size, handsome shiny leaves, and sweetly scented flowers in early summer. ![]() Little Henry Sweetspire ( Itea virginica)Ī garden classic that’s still going strong. Vanilla Spice ® and Sugartina ® ‘Crystalina’ were selected for exceptional fragrance, large flowers, and clear yellow fall color. This easy-going native shrub blooms in mid-summer – all the better to enjoy its sweet-spicy scent wafting on the warm July breeze. Vanilla Spice and Sugartina Crystalina Summersweet ( Clethra alnifolia) The best part? Ruby Anniversary is hardy in USDA zones 5 to 9, greatly expanding the range where this very long-blooming shrub will grow.Ĥ. It has an elegant, fountain-like habit, glossy leaves, and red stems and new growth. Ruby Anniversary abelia brings a jasmine-like perfume to your landscape in late summer/early autumn when few other fragrant plants are blooming. Ruby Anniversary Abelia ( Abelia chinensis) You’ll just have to sniff one and see what they smell like to you! Hardy in USDA zones 5 to 9.ģ. Their fragrance varies depending on the age of the flower and the time of day and even the person smelling them – to me they smell like apple cider, but I’ve heard bananas, pineapple, and even bubble gum. This is a large shrub (6’/1.8m tall and wide) with attractive glossy foliage and unique dark red flowers from late spring through summer. With a passel of common names like Carolina allspice, sweetshrub, strawberry shrub, pineapple shrub, and sweet Betsy, there’s clearly something fragrant about this plant. These super-hardy plants shrug off tough winters, so they’re a great choice for cold climate landscapes. The show continues through frost (we’ve had Bloomerang in flower on Thanksgiving in our trial gardens some years!). These lilacs bloom in spring, take a brief rest, and then start to bloom again in mid-summer. ![]() The Bloomerang series (Bloomerang Purple and Bloomerang Dark Purple) of reblooming lilacs gives you more of what you love: flowers. It would be silly to start with anything other than the queen of fragrant flowering shrubs. ![]()
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