Planting a Scent Garden
As with color, aroma in the garden can be actively planned or left to chance. If you want your garden to be romantic, smell is the key element. However, like color, scent can be experienced in different intensities.
There are two different ways that plants produce aromas.
* Through the foliage is aromatic when the oil removed by brushing, crushing or heat. These include chamomile, lavender, and rosemary artimisia.
* Through the interest of producing fragrance when they open, such as Honeysuckle, roses mahonia, and Philadelphus.
Keep in mind that research has found relationships between flowers and fragrance allergies. Remember this when you plant a garden aroma.
Time of year is very important when designing a garden aroma. Some plants produce aromas throughout the year, depending on the flowers and foliage. Remember that many fragrant greenery. Choose different types of fragrant plants in order to have a fragrance in your garden twelve months of the year.
Here are some suggestions:
Spring – wisteria, clematis armandii, rhododendron.
Summer – jasmine, rose, Philadelphus.
Fall – mytrus communis, llecifolia ITEA, clematis flammula.
Winter – witch hazel, Christmas place, sarcococca.
Because plants produce a different scent at the time of the year, plant them in areas where you can enjoy it. Make scents of plant species form the group:
* Bulbs
* Annuals
* Climbers
* Check
* Trees
Planting in the form and select aromatic plants for different seasons to ensure a good balance of the fragrance in your garden. Chamomile, Pennyroyal, and thyme can be planted between stepping stones and patio will release their scent when stepped on. The heat created by the stones in the summer months will also publish the aroma into the air.
Mature plants in the flowerbeds of different fragrance to attract butterflies, birds and insects into your site. also reflect the distinct aroma of a different mood and lifestyle. Including aromatic plants in the bed near the door, sidewalks and windows. This will remove the smell in all the seasons and you will be able to take your perfume from the garden at any time during the year.
Scented plants for the garden can be classified into categories such as perfumes.
* Herbs – mint
* Musk – basil and azaleas
* Honey / almond – tree basil
* Vanilla – magnolia.
* Lemon – lippia
* Rose – the rose and jasmine
Fragrance in the garden may change reflecting the exotic places. For example, oranges brings thoughts of the Mediterranean. Cedar makes people think of a wooded valley. If you have favorite places where you have a vacation, think about planting native vegetation to the site. Fragrance of the garden you can bring back pleasant memories.
After you set up fragrant garden, sit back, relax and enjoy all your favorite fragrances. A fragrant garden is balm for the soul.