I was inspired by a blogging friend, Ute, to blog about the scents in our garden. I always want plants to give me more than one thing – colour, scent, texture, flowers, berries and we have lots that have scent as their first attribute. The main scented flowers are just outside the kitchen and along the steps up to the garden.
1. Heliotrope – also known as Cherry Pie because that is the scent.
2. Lavender – you’ll all know this one
3. Nemesia – smells of vanilla, a favourite of mine.
4. Sweet Peas – smell of honey
5. Dianthus – a sweet clove scent
6. Night scented Stock, a favourite from my childhood and a perfume know as Night Flowers to Daughter No 2 who in toddlerhood would wake up in the night. She was taken out to smell the Night Flowers and would then settle.
and there are all the herbs which are lovely to brush by – Sage, Rosemary, Mint and various Thymes, from next door’s garden, Jasmine and from a bit further away, the gorgeous smell of newly cut grass.
To read about lots of other gardeners and their gardens from all over the world, visit The Propagator who hosts the Six on Saturday.