SCENTED PLANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 19

SCENTED PLANTS

Half the pleasure of a garden comes from scented plants. Among the commoner annuals popular for their scent as well as for their beauty are sweet peas, wallflowers, stocks, night-scented stock, nicotiana, petunias, scabious, and mignonette. These are all easilygrown, and should find a place in every garden, however small.

Then there ar^ the bulbous plants— hyacinths, freezias, lilies, etc., and perennials like primroses and violets. The shrub section gives quite a long list, including such well-knoWn things as lemon verbena, "old man," boronia, diosma, thyme, rosemary, lavender, sweet brier, may, jasmine, lilac, and honeysuckle, and, of course, roses. There are many more sweet-scented plants, for instance luculia and viburnum carlesii, both splendid shrubs. Luculia is not quite hardy—it will not survive hard frosts —and is not too easy to manage, but Where it does thrive is a splendid addition to the winter garden/with its trusses of sweet-scented pink flowers. It is a pity 4 that some of the oldfashioned scented plants are not more grown nowadays. What memories are revived by the scent of lemon verbena or '''old man," rosemary, and lavender.

These are all quite easily grown and hot in any way unsightly or troublesome by spreading unduly. A bed of night-scented stotik or mignonette planted under the bedroom window is very delightful for the scent which is wafted in during the night.