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Seamus

Sun 02/16/20 04:57 AM

I have a small (tiny 10 foot long and 4 foot wife) garden with an even smaller paved area. Recently I've been experimenting by adding aromatic flowers like climbing jasmine and highly fragranced foliage plants like Artemisia. Can anyone suggest any other similar plants. Must be annuals or frost hardy as the average winter sees lows of -10c/14f.
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Cosmic Charlie

Sun 02/16/20 05:31 AM

I'm not sure if a daphnie Odora would be hardy enough, probably. amazing scent.
there is a deciduos version that is fully hardy.
The Lonicera Fragmentisima (same genus as honeysucle except a bush habit)another amazing scent.
A rose? Would recommend an Arther bell. a yellow bush rose, very productive. another amazing scent.
Thyme?
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Seamus

Sun 02/16/20 05:43 AM


I'm not sure if a daphnie Odora would be hardy enough, probably. amazing scent.
there is a deciduos version that is fully hardy.
The Lonicera Fragmentisima (same genus as honeysucle except a bush habit)another amazing scent.
A rose? Would recommend an Arther bell. a yellow bush rose, very productive. another amazing scent.
Thyme?

Thanks, I'll look into them.:thumbsup:
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Unknow

Wed 02/19/20 08:22 PM

Lavender?
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Unknow

Thu 02/20/20 12:36 AM

Jasmine and gardenia. Mint is also fragrant and i use it in tea
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Seamus

Thu 02/20/20 01:37 AM

Thanks for the suggestions :thumbsup:.
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SparklingCrystal 💖💎

Thu 02/20/20 06:48 AM

Certain roses, lavender, honey-suckle, lilac, I think what's called dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis).
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SparklingCrystal 💖💎

Thu 02/20/20 06:51 AM

Oh, and broom if you go space for something larger!
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Seamus

Thu 02/20/20 07:18 AM

Thanks. I have two rose bushes (one a hybrid tea rose that I planted myself and a early to mid 1950's old China rose that was already here) as well as a patio rose. I planted a climbing Jasmine a couple of years ago, now I'm experimenting with Artemisia and I've ordered a Thyme bush. If nothing else, the wild bees that have a nest in the walls of my house will be happy. Just ordered a Broom shrub, Cytisis "Goldfinch", quite a large one. Thanks again for all your suggestions, I think I have enough for now :thumbsup:.
Edited by Seamus on Thu 02/20/20 07:34 AM
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Tom4Uhere

Thu 02/20/20 10:24 AM

My X had a green thumb, there wasn't anything she planted that did not flourish.
I, on the other hand, killed a fern - one of the easiest plants to care for.

At my house I had some lilac bushes which smelled wonderful.
I used to buy wildflower seed and spread it on the hill out back.
My X ordered many flowers from seed catalogs.

My neighbor (88 year old man living alone) loves gardening.
I went online and ordered a bunch of free seed catalogs for him.
(In exchange: a really big smile)

Here's where I went to get them for him

http://www.thespruce.com/free-seed-catalogs-1357756
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Seamus

Thu 02/20/20 10:31 AM

Thanks, all suggestions welcome. :thumbsup:
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Thu 02/20/20 04:01 PM

Cool! What you got sounds lovely!
Broom can get quite big, but you can prune it. They are lovely and the scent is too! Early bumblebees fancy it as well :)

I think I was about to get a nest of bumbebees in my wall 2 years back. I found out cos I had a large bumblebee indoors all the time. I put it outdoors and 10 mins later it was back again. After this happening some 4-5x I checked and saw it enter a gap in the wall. I phoned council and they came and closed it for me. I did not want a nest in my walls, certainly not if they could come inside. I never really found that indoors gap, but there has to be an opening somewhere underneath the windowsill?
That large bumblebee flew around close to the wall where the former gap had been for a few days. Poor bugger wasn't too happen I guess. I told it it had to find another place to live. I always talk to bumblebees, grin.
Also when they come too close to my liking. I tell them "I'm not a flower! Please go visit a flower!" Usually they then do buzz off. They don't scare me, I like them, but I do not want to get stung either.

I talk too much... time for bed!!
Night night!
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Freebird Deluxe

Mon 03/23/20 06:19 AM

I have had many bur now gone back to manual ones
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notbeold

Mon 03/23/20 06:49 AM

Rosemary is handy, and mint.