Since it spring time, you will be thrilled at the sight and scent of fragrant early blooming bulbs such as Iris reticulata, Siberian squill and grape hyacinths. Add a few specialty fragrant daffodils such as Thalia. It's a must to plant a few of the traditional large flowered and strongly scented hyacinths by your front door. Your visitors will feel welcome by its beautiful sweet scent. If you have nice shaded areas in your flower garden use it to plant such ground covers such as the lily of the valley, sweet violets, or a carpet of sweet woodruff. Te annual sweet alyssum and the all time favorite among floral scents, sweet peas are a must for any flower garden. Just make sure that when you go to purchase your sweet pea seeds, be aware some have more fragrant than others. Be sure to look at the label to see what kind of floral fragrant you're getting whether it's the one you want.

As spring continues, you will find the air perfumed by the sweet smell of lilacs, peonies and roses. Soon lavender and lavandin join the symphony of scents. Some roses will continue to bloom all the way to the summer time to provide an ongoing source of fragrant delight. Imagine a summer evening perfumed by the roses.
Some flowers tend to have a very strong fragrance in the evening. Such flowers include the nicotiana, four o'clock, and the moonflower vine which along with the nicotiana and four o'clock will bloom long into the fall.

Perennials are very popular among gardeners. So to have a perennials and fragrance in your garden is like killing two birds with one stone. Among perennials favorites for fragrance, you must plant the spicily scented dianthus for bloom from spring into summer. Don't miss scented Iris cultivars such as the Royal Storm, Scented Bubbles, Vanity, or Midnight and specialty fragrant daylilies such as Siloam Double Classic, Hyperion, Chorus Line, and Raspberry Candy.

Phlox are in a class of their own when it comes to fragrance and the border phlox will bloom from summer into the fall if deadheaded, meaning you remove the dead flower heads from the plant to improve its appearance or stimulate further flowering. Make sure to feed and water it well. Late summer bloomers with strong fragrance also include the exotic and heady tuberose. You might need to replace it the following year because tuberoses are not winter hardy flowers. Naked ladies or Lycoris squamigera, a moderately hardy bulb, is another wonderful scented late summer bloomer with lovely spidery pink flowers atop long thin bare stems.

These flowers will make your spring to fall garden an exciting place to be around. You'll love it and your neighbors and visitors will love it too. Now visit your nursery and see what they have and good luck planting this season.