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What could be more wonderful than strolling through a flower garden full of scent and fragrance? Here are some top perennial picks for a pleasing fragrant filled garden.
Achillea - easily grown in full sun and rock hardy
Agastache - self sowing, lovely violet shades for sun
Arabis - low growing, sweet fragrance for sun or light shade
Artemisia - foliage is menthol for full hot sun
Asclepias - flowers are almost sickly sweet and overpowering in mass plantings
Buddleia - a fall bloomer and garden classic
Calamintha - lesser known garden perennial - minty
Caryopteris - shrubby plant, grow as herbaceous perennial in cold areas
Centaurea - blue corn flower, full sun and self-sowing
Centranthus - full sun-lover and easy to grow
Cimicifuga - a shade garden classic perennial, sweet fragrance
Clematis - sweet fragrance on bush clematis
Convallaria - classic lily of the valley for spreading shade
Corydalis - another tender shade lover
Dianthus - carnation smells
Dictamnus - powerful fragrance for the sunny garden
Eupatorium - full sun lover and easy once established
Euphorbia - another tough to kill plant in full sun
Geranium - leaves are menthol fragrance
Hemerocallis - some flowers fragrant - "lemon lily" is of the classic fragrant perennials
Hosta - the fall bloomers are wonderfully fragrant
Iris - goes without saying
Lavandula - another full sun classic
Lilium - and the third in the series of plants you have to grow if you want fragrance.
Monarda - the leaves are distinctive
Nepeta - catnip with its minty tones
Origanum - oregano - both for fragrance and low-growing ornamental status
Paeonia - classic corsage and cut flower
Perovskia - late summer blooming and foliage is dusky
Phlox - some varieties more fragrant than others
Polemonium - tender sweet fragrance - not heavy
Rosmarinus - rosemary - it's all in the leaves
Salvia - it's all in the leaves of this "sage" family
Silene - another faint but interesting floral perfume
Thymus - who doesnt' think of fragrance when you think of thyme and fragrant perennials
Tiarella - a slight woodlandy sweet fragrance
Viola - a clear flower fragrance from the violets
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Aromatic Leaves
Achillea, Acorus, Agastache, Artemisia, Basil, Calamintha, Caryopteris, Catmint, Catnip, Cilantro, Curry, Geranium Biokovo, Geranium Ingwersens, Houttuynia, Lavandula, Lemon Verbena, Mint, Monarda, Nepeta, Oregano, Perovskia, Rosemary, Sage, Salvia, Santolina, Thymus
Fragrant Flowers
Buddleia, Cimicifuga, Clematis paniculata, Convallaria, Corydalis, Dianthus, Echinacea Ruby Giant, Echinacea,
Filipendula, Galium, Hemerocallis, Hosta Guacamole, Hosta Royal Standard, Lavandula, Lilium, Lonicera, Lysimachia, Paeonia lactiflora, Phlox paniculata, Phlox stolonifera, Tiarella, Yucca
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