Sweet smelling garden

[MotherOfDragon]

I want my garden to smell delish. Last year I planted honeysuckle, mint, lavender and rosemary but am looking to add to this with something that is fast growing and preferably seeds quickly. Does anyone have any ideas?

My lavender is also looking scraggy, but it's only been out a year! Should that happen so fast x

Can anyone recommend an on line retailer? I want to send a daphne to a friend, but I'm wary of buying unseen...

motherof - They do go a bit scratty over winter sometimes. If it's English lavender, did you prune it in August? If not, you can take about an inch off it now - just give it a a haircut and it should thicken up. Provided it has plenty of sun and plenty of drainage, it should be happy.

Online I would recommend crocus.co.uk they are the retailer behind the RHS website and Waitrose Garden too.

I have sarcoccoa in the shade and it smells lovely in winter. I bought Nicotiana as bedding plants in the local garden centre last spring/summer and they were scented.

Definitely go with Crocus. They are superb. Healthy plants, carefully packed with a money back guarantee.

Serfinia, the scented petunia, is a heavenly lilac colour, grows like a weed, and smells blissful for 2 months. I do mine in hanging baskets by the back door.

I like my lemon balm, it's very fragrant and keeps the obscene amount of flies we get down.
Sweet peas are the most fragrant plants in my garden. I have them up a couple of willow obelisks, any left over ones I let clamber up bird feeders etc. The cut flowers smell lovely indoors too.

Lemon verbena is my favourite for scent in a small garden - and I am looking at a few of these for my new brick wall which should be built by the end of the month. Whoop

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/articles/the-garden/pick-of-the-scented-climbers

Love this thread! Planted lots of night scented stock and nicotiana the year I conceived DS and so feel very nostalgic for the scent - now going to do that again this year.
I have actually managed to grow hyacinth bulbs this year ( put netting over to keep squirrels out) they smell fantastic - in pots outside front door so I smell them welcoming me when I get home from work.

To me, nothing breasts the smell of roses. Look at David Austin website, the best scents are, Harlow Carr, and Gertrude Jekyll.

Thank you shove

Can anyone tell me what this plant is please?

Looks like a camellia.

Philadelphus, also known as mock orange, is my absolute favourite. I had a huge amount of it in my last house and so wish I'd dug some up to take with us. I bought a cutting last year and hopefully it'll grow into something impressive in a few years time. The smell is absolutely divine, like honey and vanilla to my nose.

Is it difficult to grow? They look beautiful and i really want one in my garden!

No, not difficult at all, unless you are on alkaline soil (chalk/limestone) as they like it acidic.

The only thing I would say is that they don't tend to look as good as in that picture in most place. In England, the flowers brown quite quickly, so you tend to get a mixture of beautiful pink and soggy witheredness. They last much longer, and much better, in Japan. Still pretty here, just not as immaculate - another effect of our cold and wet climate I'm afraid.

Philadelphus, also known as mock orange, is my absolute favourite

Oh yes they do smell divine. And Choisya. Yummy.

The camellia (which afaik aren't scented - my neighbours' have one which is more on our drive than theirs is blooming very nicely at the moment but no scent) has reminded me, some azaleas, especially yellow ones, have a lovely ylang-ylang type scent. I wonder if a small one in a big pot of ericaceous compost would work?

Just walked past this on my way home. It smells AMAZING!
Terrible picture but does anyone know it?

I think that's a trachleospernum?

I think it's a saracoca. Am going to get one!

Can't see the flowers but agree it could be sarcococca - if the flowers are little stringy things. If they are more formed and bunchy could be a white daphne

Marking - I have some lavendar that smells lovely and a eucalyptus tree but want to add some more.

Was thinking of having my own mini herb garden.

It doesn't look like my sarcococa but maybe it is. Was it a climber? Any berries? It would
Be the right time for that to flower in the UK.

That looks like a Daphne to me.