5 Fragrant Plants for Your Home

Do you want your guests to smell wonderful fragrant plants as they walk up the steps to your home? Since spring has arrived, we turn our attention to the great outdoors and gardening.  Fragrant plants are a must for your senses.  Try planting these five fragrant plants to give wonderful aroma and appeal to your home.

1.  Honeysuckle

This vining plant comes in several different colors.  Yellow, white, and pink are the most common colors. The unusual flower has a very strong sweet aroma to it.  These plants grow rapidly along trellises, fences, and anywhere that has adequate support.  These grow well in Northern Colorado but don't like bitter cold.

2.  Hyacinths

Hyacinths are a bulb that blooms in the spring.  Each bulb produces one to three spikes of flowers.  These can be grown in pots near your front door or they are also attractive as a border plant.

They have a heady perfumed scent that is intoxicating.  They usually planted in the fall and come in a variety of colors.  

3.  Roses

Roses come in over 200 species.  They are known as the Sweetheart flower.  They come in multiple colors, some variegated, some shades are even as dark as night.  

Roses can be used in a multitude of ways because they come as bushes, stemmed roses, climbing roses, miniature roses, platter size (showy) roses,  or trailing roses.  They even vary in size and shape.

A few of the most fragrant varieties are: Honey Perfume, Double Delight, and Climbing Rose America.

4.  Lilac Bush

The lilac bush has long been known for it's sweet intense fragrance.  It's easily grown in Northern Colorado and blooms right around graduation time in the spring.  

The lilac bush is a plant that gets quite large and can be grown as hedge.  They can be pruned to stay smaller for under a front window.  The fragrance is unmistakable and quite lovely.  

Flowers are white or different shades of purple and attract butterflies. 

5.  Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley is a partial shade loving plant and is easy to grow.  It is a perennial and spreads quite quickly. 

Although this flower is fragrant, it is poisonous. It has a very sweet bouquet to it and is used in perfumes and wedding bouquets. 

The bell shaped flowers and large waxy leaves make it a striking plant in flower beds.  

Most of these flowers, shrubs, or bushes can be found at local Nurseries such as Loveland Garden Center and Nursery, Gulley Greenhouse and Garden Center, or Donath Lake Greenhouse.