Flowers and Fragrance
How blessed we are to have so many wonderful perfumed plants and flowers available to grow in our gardens. Most gardens have an area to display perfumed plants, allowing you to enjoy not only the beautiful perfumes drifting through your garden, but also beautiful perfumed blooms for flower arrangements inside your home.
There are however, many people especially children, with allergies to pollens and some, or all perfumed flowers. Excluding the offending plants from your display is often the safest way to protect your family or friends from the discomfort that allergies cause. In some cases, perfumed plants have been bred to provide gardeners with an abundance of the glorious blooms without the offending pollens and perfume, talk with your local nurseryman to find out if they are available in your area of the world.
For those who can have a fragant garden, there are some beautiful plants to choose from, including the wonderful bursts of red, pink, or white flowers of the timeless camellia, the star shaped flowers of the gloriously perfumed stephanotis, the perfection of the intoxicating gardenia, the lovely fragances and blooms of roses and many others.
There are plants that will only release there perfume at night, filling the night air with their magical fragrance. Some orchids are fragant but only after sunset, jasmines, night scented tobacco, the beautiful moonflower and many of the herbs, all contrive to work fragrant wonders through your garden at night.
If you don't have enough space to display your fragrant plants, you can grow them in large tubs each side of your front entrance, or display them on your balcony.
For more about fragrant plants go to:
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Until Next Time All The best, And Happy Gardening
Margarete
There are however, many people especially children, with allergies to pollens and some, or all perfumed flowers. Excluding the offending plants from your display is often the safest way to protect your family or friends from the discomfort that allergies cause. In some cases, perfumed plants have been bred to provide gardeners with an abundance of the glorious blooms without the offending pollens and perfume, talk with your local nurseryman to find out if they are available in your area of the world.
For those who can have a fragant garden, there are some beautiful plants to choose from, including the wonderful bursts of red, pink, or white flowers of the timeless camellia, the star shaped flowers of the gloriously perfumed stephanotis, the perfection of the intoxicating gardenia, the lovely fragances and blooms of roses and many others.
There are plants that will only release there perfume at night, filling the night air with their magical fragrance. Some orchids are fragant but only after sunset, jasmines, night scented tobacco, the beautiful moonflower and many of the herbs, all contrive to work fragrant wonders through your garden at night.
If you don't have enough space to display your fragrant plants, you can grow them in large tubs each side of your front entrance, or display them on your balcony.
For more about fragrant plants go to:
The
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is a great way to keep up with the latest gardening news, and gardening books and products recommended by the AntsPants nursery and landscaping team.Until Next Time All The best, And Happy Gardening
Margarete
posted by M. R. Abel @ 10:07 AM
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