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Tracey Cole

February is the month of romance – Romantic gardening

Create a romantic garden retreat with fragrant flowers and lush plants, perfect for Valentine’s Day and beyond.

Romantic Gardening

Imagine stepping into your garden, where the air is filled with the sweet scent of jasmine and roses, and delicate petals flutter in the breeze—pure romance in bloom. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, now is the perfect time to create a dreamy, fragrant retreat right in your backyard.

Plants for a romantic garden :

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, why not create a romantic retreat in the garden using beautiful, fragrant plants to transform your outside space into a tranquil, relaxing haven.

Red roses are the symbol of love, a popular choice for romantic flowers, but by adding various different flowering red, pink and white plants that are delightfully scented, the romance will linger long after the red roses have faded.

On a patio or seating area containers planted with lusciously fragranced flowering plants will fill the air with enchanting aromas. A scented Jasmine Multipartum scrambling over a trellis or arbour nearby, or the Clematis Braetata, which has masses of white scented flowers, will add another dimension to the garden.

Lavender, the symbol of devotion, planted on the edge of paths will release its delightful fragrance as you brush past it, and herbs like Rosemary, Lemon Balm, Thyme and mint are hugely aromatic and, if planted in containers, within reach of a seat, will delight the senses when their leaves are gently rubbed, as will scented Perlargoniums which release their alluring fragrances of rose or lemon.

The pretty Helichrysum has musky scented leaves with honey scented flowers.

Salvia ‘Hot lips’ with its dainty fragranced red and white flowers and the lovely Gardenia (Gardenia Thunbergia) has strongly perfumed white flowers, both ideal shrubs for the border.


In keeping with the red and white theme choose perennials for the flower borders like the heavily fragranced red or white Nicotiana, or Phlox Paniculata.

The gently swaying Gaura with small white blooms, scented Peonies, Gazanias, Diasca and Nemesia.

Not only will these amazingly fragranced plants provide an awesome colour palette they also attract wildlife especially butterflies and bees. A romantic garden that will delight and bring pleasure for many months.

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