Fragrant Plants
Gardening for Fragrance – Here you will find wonderful plants that will perfume your garden.
Pick fragrant flowers in the early morning or late afternoon – the volatile oils that carry the scent are evaporated by the sun. For the most intense experience of a flower’s fragrance, lean close and breathe lightly into it before inhaling. The heat and rush of air releases the fragrant oils. Fragrances seem to lose their scent after a few moments, but the flower hasn’t run out of perfume – rather, your olfactory system is saturated and you are numbed by the smell.
Don’t use chemical sprays on fragrant flowers in bloom – it can affect the scent.
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Salvia – Color Spires Crystal Blue Sage
Crystal blue flowers unlike any other.
Magnolia Butterflies
Lemon-yellow blossoms on an award-winning tree.
Magnolia Yellow Bird
Lemon-yellow blossoms burst forth in spring.
Syringa Scentara Double Blue, Lilac
Extremely fragrant and showy flowers, intense fragrance.
Amelanchier arborea Downy Serviceberry
Colorful year round with flowers, berries, foliage and bark.
Amelanchier laevis, Allegheny Serviceberry
Native plant with showy multi-seasonal interest.
Calamintha – Calamint
2021 Perennial Plant Association Perennial Plant Of the Year. Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Of Merit. Sun-loving perennial.
Caryopteris – Beyond Midnight Bluebeard
Popular variety.
Clethra Ruby Spice – Summersweet
Award-winning fragrant pink flowers.
Convallaria majalis – Lily Of The Valley
A favorite shade loving ground cover.
Echinacea pallida – Pale Purple Coneflower
Missouri Botanical Gardens Plant of Merit Winner.
Echinacea purpurea – Purple Coneflower
Gorgeous Missouri native perennial for natural and formal settings.
Itea virginica, Virginia Sweetspire
This small Missouri and Illinois native shrubs grows anywhere, sun, shade, wet, dry.
Lonicera Major Wheeler Trumpet Honeysuckle
Hummingbirds find it from miles around.
Magnolia Bracken’s Brown Beauty Southern Magnolia
Gorgeous tree with glossy evergreen foliage and showy flowers.
Magnolia virginiana – Glauca Sweet Bay Magnolia
Grows a little smaller than the species Magnolia virginiana.
Monarda bradburiana – Bee Balm
Important Missouri native pollinator plant.
Monarda fistulosa – Wild Bergamot
An important Missouri and Illinois native pollinator food source.
Monarda Jacob Cline Bee Balm
Hummingbirds adore its ruby red blossoms, long-time favorite sun perennial.
Nepeta – Cat’s Pajamas Catmint
A purr-fect perennial it brings loads of dark indigo blue flowers.
Nepeta – Walker’s Low, Catmint
Major award winner.
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