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Looking for suggestions for a flowering plant with a stong pleasant fragrance.

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rowenj | 10:50 Mon 14th May 2012 | Gardening
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We intend to put it by the front door so visitors, postman , door to door salesman (no not them really), notice the pleasing fragrance as they go to our door.
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Marijuana?
I've got two tubs, either side of the door, of lavender, smells lovely.
Nicotania or sweet peas?
Jasmine , up a trellis
thornless rose Zepherine Drouhin

honeysuckle

lavender

viburnum bodnantense and tinus

oriental stargazer type lilies in pots. hyacinths in the spring
mahonia underplanted with lily of the valley
Himalayan Honeysuckle ,lovely scent.
was going to Lavender, but ive been beaten to it. had a lovely lavender bush by front door of my old address. it attracted lots of bees and wasps so these may keep unwanted salesmen away !
Jasmine?
Philadelphus (mock orange) is a fabulous smelling flowering shrub, I keep meaning to get a couple for the patio, so I can sit and sniff when we eventually get some decent weather.
I'm with snags. You may even get more visitors
A beautiful scented bush which flowers early Spring is Daphne. Honeysuckle is powerful too which flowers late Spring. For summer you could go for a rose bush.
if you are planting directly into the soil rather than a container try a triple planting of winter honeysuckle (lonicera fragrantissima) it is shrubby rather than a climber so it will give a support structure for a scented climbing rose Guinee is lovely a dark plummy red with heady fragrance or Zeph Drou as than the normal one)
Most shrubs only flower for a month so you might want to think of something to underplant it with.

I would suggest one of the mock oranges (philadelphus....coronarious, microphullus, belle etois, avalance) and underplant with stocks, blue petunias and marigolds.

I grow Trachelospermum jasminoides on our front wall and it smells devine all summer.
Daphne odora, lovely and very strong smelling plant, we have one growing in the garden centre where i work and you can smell it from over 20ft away.

http://www.rhs.org.uk...dora--Aureomarginata-


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