The fresh scent of pines and cedars gather with the dusk. Sweet smelling Datura and Nicociana sylvestris are annuals with white flowers that glow in the moonlight while releasing a lovely perfume into the night air. The exotic fragrance of jasmine and gardenias planted in containers around the patio or deck is a treat that may help you unwind. Many aromatic herbs give off scents on warm summer days. Nepeta, calamintha, and other members of the minty family release refreshing oils into the air as you brush against them.
Crush their leaves in your hands and hold them to your nose for instant aroma therapy. Even in October, the scent of the garden may bring back memories of walks in the woods and playing in leaves. Hay scent of prairie dropseed may turn your head as you pass by, while native fall-blooming witch hazel may stop you in your tracks with its surprisingly late and delicately scented flowers. The scent of a garden can arouse passion, soothe anxiety, elicit a smile, refresh, and intoxicate.
Changing from day to day and from morning to night, flowers and their fragrance mark special occasions and tie us to some of our fondest memories. Enjoy plants unseen beauty and magic. Sometimes called summer lilac, this sturdy little shrub in shades of white, pink, or purple withstands drought, blooms all season long, and attracts pollinators.
It's now available in dwarf varieties, so it won't overtake your garden, and newer types are not invasive. Set in borders or as mass plantings. Likes full sun. Asian Moon : Larger size with deep purple flowers that have orange throats. This spring-flowering tree is a showy addition to the landscape with small crabapples and attractive fall color.
Newer types are more disease-resistant. Prairie Fire : Dense, rounded shape with pinkish-red buds and good disease resistance. Royal Raindrops : Magenta flowers and striking deep purple foliage all season long.
This shrubby perennial plant with glossy dark green foliage may require staking to keep its heavy blooms from drooping, but their lush, exuberant flowers are worth a tiny bit of extra work. Don't plant too deep or they won't bloom. The ants that visit the flowers aren't pests; they're simply sipping the nectar, says Tankersley. Prefers full sun. Festiva Maxima : Classic for generations thanks pure white blooms with crimson flecks.
Sarah Bernhardt : Heirloom with gorgeous medium-pink double blooms. Dianthus is a low-growing perennial with a spicy or vanilla-like scent. It's often called "pinks" due to the fringed flower petals that appear to have been cut with pinking shears.
Works well as edging or in containers. Itsaul White : Pretty white double flowers with lots of fringe. This spicy-sweet smelling annual in shades of pink, purple, and white thrives in cool temperatures, so plant it as soon as the weather breaks in spring.
Makes beautiful bouquets. Prefers sun to part shade. Katz Ruby : Striking wine-red blooms on nice long stems for cutting. Viburnums are tough as nails, and these spring-blooming shrubs offer pretty pinkish-white flowers with a distinctively spicy scent.
Generally deer-resistant, too. Make sure to use durable plants that can withstand curious hands! Try planting flowers with soft petals or leaves, spiky greenery, or feathery flowers — with no thorns! Stimulation to the eyes is a key aspect to a Sensory Garden. Try choosing plants with bright, interesting colors. This part of your Sensory Garden is completely up to you — choose your favorite, vivid colors to highlight. If your time and budget allow, try adding a water feature to help bring this element of relaxing sound to the garden.
Another option is to add plants that will attract beautiful and wonderfully-noisy wildlife to the garden. Creating a Sensory Garden is not something that will happen overnight. It can be a wonderful addition to your outdoor space and an extremely fun project for the avid gardener.
Try starting with a small corner of your garden, encompassing a few of each type of plant. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night. A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
For many people the scent of certain plants can revive memories with a vividness that nothing else can equal, for the sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that and left the conscious mind.
O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet. So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in the evening. Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. Hearing - Quotes for Gardeners. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring. Arum Dracunculus Dragon Arum. Your nose is the scenter of your face. Scent is the most potent and bewitching substance in the gardener's repertory and yet it is the most neglected and least understood.
The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood.
It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it it detected. Each fragrance, whether sweet or spicy, light or heavy, comes upon you in its own way and evokes its own emotional response.
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. More Quotes for Gardeners.
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