🌸 Flowers: The Language of Love
Flowers are the language of love, especially on Valentines Day, and by planting some beautifully fragrant perennials and climbers in flower borders and containers you’ll be setting the scene for a relaxing idyllic haven to sit and enjoy a cool drink in a welcoming breathing oasis away from busy lives. Birds, bees and butterflies will also be attracted by the delicious fragrances adding to the atmosphere of tranquility.
🌹 Roses & Romantic Classics
Roses (the tradition symbol of love)are a popular choice for a romantic setting, preferably red. However, there is also a huge variety of alternative and fabulously fragranced perennials that will perfume the air.
💜 Lavender: A Symbol of Devotion
Lavender is the symbol of devotion and, if planted by a pathway will release its aroma as you brush past.
🌿 Scented Pelargoniums for Seating Areas
Rose and lemon-scented Perlagoliums placed in containers by seating areas realease a delicious fragrance when their leaves are gently rubbed.
🌼 Sensory Delights
To add extra sensory delight to the garden try plants like Helichrysum, with its musky scented foliage and honey-scented flowers.
🌺 Fragrance with Colour
The blissfully fragranced Nicotiana along with the Salvia ‘hot lips’ with its pretty red and white flowers is a must for a romantic setting.
🤍 Elegant Showstoppers
The Gardenia Thunbergia is a strongly scented plant with delicate white flowers and ever-popular Peonies, available in white or red blooms is a stunner with fragrance to match!
🌱 Fragrant Herbs to Complete the Mood
Herbs can also delight with their refreshing aromas such as Rosemary, Lemon Verbena,(Aloysia citrodora), with fabulous lemony-scented leaves, Lemon Balme, Oregano, Buchu, with citrus, blackcurrant or mint aromas or Thyme.
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