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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Syringa Beauty of Moscow, Lilac
Highly fragrant double flowers.
Magnolia Butterflies
Lemon-yellow blossoms on an award-winning tree.
Magnolia Yellow Bird
Lemon-yellow blossoms burst forth in spring.
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 purpurea – Purple Coneflower
Gorgeous Missouri native perennial for natural and formal settings.
Hydrangea anomala petiolaris – Climbing Hydrangea Vine
A gorgeous perennial vine for shade.
Monarda bradburiana – Bee Balm
Important Missouri native pollinator plant.
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.
Paeonia – Gay Paree Peony
2023 Gold Medal Winner, recommended by the American Peony Society.
Paeonia – High Noon Tree Peony
Winner of the prestigious American Peony Society’s Gold Medal award, the Society’s highest honor
Paeonia – Pink Tree Peony
Its blossoms bring ethereal, exotic beauty. Very rare and limited.
Paeonia – Red Tree Peony
Wonderfully scented, crimson blossoms.
Paeonia Morning Lilac Itoh Peony
Expect at least 50 flowers on one mature plant. Bloom period can last up to 6 weeks!
Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian Sage
Multiple award winner with lavender-blue flowers and fantastic silver foliage.
Phlox divaricata – Blue Moon Wild Sweet William
Sweetly fragrant easy care shade perennial.
Phlox paniculata – Coral Creme Drop Garden Phlox
Spectacular scented blossoms all summer.
Phlox paniculata – Garden Phlox
Missouri native with fragrant flowers for months.
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