You’ll definitely want to stop and smell these blooms.
It’s easier to enjoy them when planted near a window or cut for floral arrangements.
Everyone likes a colorful bloom, buteveryone loves a fragrant one!
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Happily, several easy-to-grow annuals offer scented flowers you’re free to plant in your garden.
Add theseplants to summer containerson your patio or porch so you could sit and enjoy their fragrance.
Each of these plants has a distinct fragrance that will make your garden even more inviting.
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It’s sometimes called cherry pie plant because of the cherry undertones to the vanilla scent.
The dense clusters of white, yellow, red, pink, or blue fragrant flowers arefavorites for bouquets.
Evening stock is more sprawling, with more narrow flower petals that open in the evening.
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Old-fashioned varieties are your best bet; many newer hybrid bedding-plant varieties carry little scent.
The blooms of this annual vine open in the evening and close each morning.
Grow in full sun.
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The funnel-shaped flowers come inmany sizes and color patterns.
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