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Fragrant Annuals
Antirrhinum majus -
SNAPDRAGON
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$2.00
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Needing little introduction as it is one of the more common bedding plants–this is an open pollinated, tall, tetraploid mix–the tetraploids being more heat tolerant and sturdier than the diploid varieties. Snapdragons are somewhat erratically fragrant depending on the variety, the weather (cool, moist), and the nose (human, i.e. not antirrhinum). These smell rather like bubble gum to me.
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Fragrant Annuals
Antirrhinum majus -
SNAPDRAGON WHITE ROCKET
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$2.00
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This is a good strain for outdoor growing for use as cut flowers or simply to have in the flower garden. Growing to about two feet, it is a fine candidate for the white garden–the flowers are lightly scented. An early pinching will make a stockier plant with more blooming stems.
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Fragrant Annuals
Artemisia annua -
SWEET WORMWOOD
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$2.00
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Seldom if ever offered, this robust but elegant annual should be used in place of kochia (summercypress) for foliage and temporary hedges. Robinson calls it a graceful plant with flowers “not showy in elegant panicles”. Judy said, “smells like an old grocery store with wooden floors”. It ought certainly to be used in public plantings, as well as any herb or fragrance garden. With leaves finer than any fern, and its quick growth, it should be used for fragrant verdure. Pinch early to encourage bushiness–can go to 5 ft. Good for dried wreath material.
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Fragrant Annuals
Asperula orientalis -
BLUE WOODRUFF
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$2.00
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Flowers “…strongly yet delicately fragrant… a single plant will be found to perfume the whole greenhouse.” A useful small plant for a moist shady spot producing its small sky-blue flowers throughout the summer–I must confess I either cannot smell this fragrance (my brother cannot smell sweet violets) or have not visited it at the right time of day or else it has lost its fragrance. I will have to try again this year. HA to 1 foot.
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Fragrant Annuals
Centaurea americana alba -
WHITE BASKET FLOWER
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$2.00
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The very attractive white form of this already attention getting wild-flower with 4-5 inch flowers on a plant to 3-4 feet. In my experience, more robust plants are obtained by direct sowing even though they are a little slow to start. Good for cutting.
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Fragrant Annuals
Centaurea imperialis -
GIANT SWEET SULTAN
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$2.00
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THE BRIDE is a large white flowered form of the Royal Centaurea, or possibly one of the parents of this strain along with C. moschata. It is a fine vigorous plant and considered to be one of the most richly perfumed–also excellent for cutting with its long stems and long life in water.
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Fragrant Annuals
Centaurea imperialis -
ROYAL CENTAUREA
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$2.00
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Also called Giant Sweet Sultan, this is one of the more fragrant of garden annuals and an excellent cut flower as well. The plants can grow to 4 feet and bear thistle-like flowers in shades of purple, lilac, yellow and white which are long stemmed and last well in water. They are honey scented, like lime, full sun and a dry situation.
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Fragrant Annuals
Centaurea moschata suaveolens -
YELLOW SWEET SULTAN
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$2.00
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Smaller than the preceding, to 2 feet, these bloom from July until October and diffuse the musk-like perfume of the East. Native to the Middle East, it was named in honor of the Sultan of Constantinople who “saw it abroad, liked it and wore it himself, all his vassals have had it in great regard, and hath been obtained from them by some that have sent it into these parts,” says Parkinson, to whom it was newly introduced.
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Fragrant Annuals
Centratherum intermedium -
MANAOS BEAUTY
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$2.00
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A bushy perennial native to Brazil which can be treated as a HHA in the north. Coming into bloom in a rather short period from seed, the lavender-blue, button flowers to 1-1/4 inches are long lasting and borne continually until frost. The refreshing resinous scented foliage would be a good candidate for wreaths or potpourri. The fragrance reminds me of that of the Pine-scented rose. Mounding to 2 feet high by 3 feet across.
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Fragrant Annuals
Cheiranthus cheiri -
WALLFLOWER FAIR LADY
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Fragrant Annuals
Cheiranthus cheiri -
PARIS MARKET WALLFLOWER
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$2.00
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Not a plant for outdoors in hot climates–however it is excellent to force in the greenhouse or start in pots in late summer and overwinter in cellar or cold frame for planting out in spring. Offered here is an annual strain grown for the PARIS MARKET, in yellow, red, mahogany and white. Deliciously fragrant, the wallflower was so commonly used for nosegays that it was given its botanical name Cheiranthus, which means ‘handflower.’
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Fragrant Annuals
Chenopodium botrys -
AMBROSIA
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$2.00
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Also known as Feather-geranium, Ambrosia mexicana et. al. This plant, like Sweet Annie, is most useful for making dried wreaths–either cut green or in the tawny mature stage. In fresh cut flowers, a few feathery stalks will keep the water sweeter. The plumes of tiny green flowers, in fact the entire plant, leaves a warm perfume, both sweet and spicy, where it touches the skin. A hardy annual, it grows to 2 feet.
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