Scented outdoor plant

[halfpasteleven]

What can I buy to put in a pot outside that has a strong scent?

Have space on my patio at the back door so would love something that smells beautiful as I go in and out

Thanks!

Can you lift a few of the tiles and create a proper bed? Then you could have something all year round. Viburnum and rosemary in winter, scented narcissi hyacinths, wallflowers, lilac in spring, lavender, roses, honeysuckle, scented pelargoniums in the summer and autumn months. Fantastic for wildlife too. Growers websites Eg Sarah Raven have special sections for scented plants to help with ideas.

The great thing about pots is you can move them around depending on the time of year. I have a Daphne for late winter early spring scent and have just bought a mock orange for the summer.

Sweet pea have a lovely smell and attract butterflies.

Vanilla nemesia! Absolutely lovely!

Lavender
Rosemary
Southernwood
Thyme
Chamomile
Philadelphus
Rose
Jasmine
Honeysuckle

Depends on time of year. There are very few that will be good year round.
Sarcococca for winter
Daphne is great
Philadelphus although mostly not pots
Lavender

Pots of night scented stock are lovely near a door.

WAllflowers now, then Matthiola incana, then pinks for the summer.

Or rosemary for scented leaves all the year round

If you have room for a climber Star Jasmine, trachelospermum jasminoides, is fantastic. It has a very strong scent similar to jasmine but flowers for much longer, starting in June and mine carries on until late Autumn.

Daphnes...... There's one that flowers approx Mar til Oct.....

Thanks so much to you all..
will have to be pots I'm afraid- DH worked too long on the patio for me to dig it up again!
We do have beds too so I'll look at other options for them but we do use the back door more than the front so just wanted to make the most of it especially coming into Summer!

Is rosemary easy to grow?
I actually have some lavender ready to pot...

I was going to suggest might scented stock abc they are really cheap. I think Wilkos has packets of seeds for 50p.

My mother gave me a cutting of a yellow ribes (flowering currant) a long time ago, my goodness the scent knocks my socks off as its so strong (but lovely). So annoyed with myself for putting it at the end of the garden.

Go to a good garden centre in each season and see what looks and smells gorgeous. I found a Christmas box(?) that was sweet scented that way.

I took DD to the garden centre today to do this. I wanted some nice scented plants so gave an 8yo free reign to sniff every plant in the centre and find the ones she liked.

We've ended up with a mixed herb section of the garden with lemon thyme, rosemary, garden thyme, a couple of varieties of mint and lavender

Are you after a few pots @halfpasteleven? The Labrador will work well in the Summer

My go to for summer scent is Attar of Rose Pelargonium.

Also love a Lemon Verbena - very strokable each time you walk past.

And any mint. I love chocolate mint for regular squish and sniff.

I'm putting wallflowers out right now 😊

For winter, sarcococcus and skimmia.

Seconding vanilla nemesia - has an amazing scent and is perfect in pots.

Jasmine, night scented stock, sweet peas.

Gardenias. Happy in a pot and the best scent ever. Some are hardy.

If you can go for a large pot, you need a scented deciduous azalea. Mine perfumes my entire garden when it’s in flower, it’s amazing.

Thirding it. I'm about to get some for some hanging baskets. Wisley is the one I've had before and it's gorgeous.
Wallflowers are beautiful too. I think both, in pots, would give you the scent you are after. Rosemary etc smell nice but usually only if you rub them imo

Our Skimmia smells wonderful in early spring
. Honeysuckle for later I. The year