Re: fragrant flowers etc...

> Wow, I've always wanted to do this ever since I read "The Fragrant Year"
> by Helen Van Pelt Wilson. And in connecting up to our public library to
> get her name, I came across several other books which I must read on the
> same subject:  "The Evening Garden" by Peter Loewer, "The Scented
> Garden" by David Squire, "Growing Fragrant Plants", by Rayford Clayton
> Reddell, and "The Scented Garden" by Rosemary Verey.
> The scented plants I have are Dames Rocket, Dianthus, the Oriental
> lilies, Clethra and Mockorange shrubs, a David Austin rose - Fair
> Bianca, and the peonies.  My favorite of all scents is a tree I don't
> have and won't have--but I can smell it all over town when it is
> blooming--Russian Olive.

My favorites (for fragrance, not necessarily blooms) are:

   Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed)
   Convallaria majalis (lily of the valley)
   Filipendula rubra (queen of the prairie)
   Hosta (certain types)
   Hyacinth spp.
   Muscari spp. (grape hyacinth)
   Paeonia (certain types -- peonies)
   Phlox paniculata (garden phlox)
   Rosa rugosa ( http://www.mallorn.com/pom/Jul98/ )
   Syringa meyeri
   Viburnum x burkwoodii, juddii, bodnatense
   Viburnum carlesii ( http://www.mallorn.com/pom/Apr98/ )

Up close kinds of smells:

   Buddleia 'Black Knight' (smells like mulberries & honey to me)
   Centranthus ruber (Jupiter's beard)
   Dodecatheon meadia ( http://www.mallorn.com/pom/May98/ -- smells
      just like orange blossoms!)
   Pachysandra terminalis
   Podophyllum peltatum (may apples)

Of course, there's many more, but these are the only ones that I can
come up with off the top of my head.
   
Also, even though I'm just listing floral fragrances, I REALLY enjoy
gardening with fragrances from less obvious sources -- brushing against
the leaves, fruit, etc.

Chris
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