Best fragrant plants for your garden

Now that you’ve dealt with the shrubs, time to plant some aromatic plants in the backyard garden. 

Having plants in and around the house naturally purifies the air. They are so beneficial to have in the house. While you might be a sucker for succulents or snake plants, there are plants that bear the most amazing smelling flowers. Having fragrant flower plants around the house will not only add a dash of colour to your house but also make it smell good.

Here are the best smelling plants for your garden.

  1. Rose – Can a garden even be completed without a rose bush? The thorny-stemmed flowers are much popular for their smell and are often used as bottles fragrances. Having so many colour variations, you really get to take a pick.
  2. Hyacinth – Hyacinths grows in bunches and blooms in blue, pink, white among other colours. They carry a soft smell and lighten up your space with colours. They do need some support for growth as they are so large.
  3. Jasmine – Jasmine smell is extracted and used in hair oils. The tiny white flowers have a strong smell and planting it in the garden will add an overpowering aroma. Place it on the bedroom window ledge for the wind to bring in the sweet smell of jasmines. Jasmines bloom and smell better at night.
  4. Gardenia – Gardenias thrive best in moist soils. They grow in shrubs and have a beautiful bloom as they are closely placed. Gardenias prefer the night-time temperature to be warm, and they grow at night-time. Humidity is not a problem for them to grow.
  5. Freesia – Freesias are pleasant to look at when grown in lines. They grow best in a sub-tropical climate and require sunlight and moist soil. Freesias come in purple, yellow, white and are beautiful to look at.
  6. Tuber rose – Famously known as rajanigandha, tuber roses are very famous as a fragrant flower in West Bengal. Flowers vary in colours, but the white ones are the best smelling. The white flowers on green stalks are enough to lighten up a living space.
  7. Lavender – What can be said about lavender that you don’t already know? Lavender is an all-rounder. The purple flowers emanate the best smell that is used in most perfumes, cosmetics, body mists. Even adding a few sprigs of lavender in a bowl will leave the room smelling amazing.