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

[rowenj]

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.

[snags]

Marijuana?

[B00]

I've got two tubs, either side of the door, of lavender, smells lovely.

[mrs_overall]

Nicotania or sweet peas?

[rowanwitch]

Jasmine , up a trellis
thornless rose Zepherine Drouhin

honeysuckle

lavender

viburnum bodnantense and tinus

oriental stargazer type lilies in pots. hyacinths in the spring

[woofgang]

mahonia underplanted with lily of the valley

[megfitz]

Himalayan Honeysuckle ,lovely scent.

[mandy22]

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 !

[DaisyNonna]

Jasmine?

[rockyracoon]

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.

[maggiebee]

I'm with snags. You may even get more visitors

[coccinelle]

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.

[rowanwitch]

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)

[hammerman]

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.

[webbo3]

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-


Dave.