Summer Scents

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    I have most of the usual scented suspects: roses, nemesia, some dark petunias, dianthus geranium mac, lavender, various herbs.
    Is there anything else I could try?
     
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      Nicotiana sylvestris has an exquisite fragrance.
      Very easy from seed and they often re-sprout in the Spring from roots still in the ground.
      The do get to be very big plants.
      The smaller nicotiana also have a lovely fragrance, but the sylvestris is far stronger.
      Night scented stocks are another very fragrant flower.
       
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          Woundwort? Oh, I think you’ve got that already :whistle:
           
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          Sorry, couldn’t resist.

          Evening Primrose, jasmine, am guessing you have honeysuckle?

          Also Stocks, but that’s one of those scents I can never decide if I like or not
           
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            Behave @Butterfly6 ! Woundwort isn't a scent. It's a stink!
             
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              Sweet peas.
               
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                The Salvia Lips varieties have strongly scented foliage, nice if you like blackcurrants!
                 
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                  lilies

                  lilac

                  privet, if allowed to flower, has a very heady scent - rather unpleasant if you ask me, but some like it!
                   
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                    Pinks have a lovely scent, or at least some of them do
                     
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                      Datura, Cestrum nocturnum and Zaluzianskya capensis.
                       
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                        I like privet scent but only for the memories. About the only flower in the middle of London when I was a child
                         
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                          Trachelospermum jasminoides is the strongest scent in our garden
                           
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                            Agree with suggestions.

                            I love my lemon verbena - just like sherbet lemons, but only when you rub really, doesn’t perfume the air like jasmine or honeysuckle.
                             
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                              Mirabilis jalapa is colourful,scented and forms a perennial tuber. Heliotrope? There are a few 'hardy' Gardenias nowadays...
                               
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