A couple of roses still haning on here, Nicotiana sylvestris along with an Italian heirloom arugula (vanilla scented yellow blooms).

tj

lavender_lass,
I have a few gardenias...and I love the fragrance. I have some in the vase on my desk, along with some roses. Souvenir de Malmaison has a lot of buds and it smells really good hen you get anywhere near it. I do grow lavender with my roses, thanks to you. the plants did very well this year, although they weren't really heavy bloomers, but this is not the ideal area. I grow bee balm too, but have to grow most herbs in pots since they become very invasive here.

I'm glad you mentioned Pinapple sage. that is one that I used to grow and always loved. I dug up an enormous clump of rosemary earlier this month. It was not with the roses, but with the amarylus and clematis...it outgrew itself. I pulled most of the basil off to make pesto yesterday.

I will say I would love to walk in your beautiful garden...from your pictures, it is a lovely place.
kay

Mmmmm, for me, the absolutely best garden smell in the crisp fall weather is wood smoke wafting from my chimney....

I have catmint growing with my roses, but one only gets a whiff of it when you brush up against it or hit it with the mower.

Speaking of wood smoke, another smell I don't get to enjoy so much anymore even out here in the country is burning leaves. Most people mulch them I guess. And in town, the leaves are all raked to the street and trucks pick them up. Burning is mostly likely banned as a fire hazard now, not like when we were kids.

The eliagnes (sp) blooms the weeks near Halloween. It is highly fragrent. It seems to be stronger at night. I have had the parents escorting the "trick or treaters" ask me if I had just sprayed something. I think I will go outside and take a sniff.

So many wonderful plants...I wish we could grow a few more in our area, like gardenias. I just took the star jasmine out of the pots and gave them to my mom for the winter (she has a huge south window in her kitchen). She has some rosemary she's trying to keep inside over the winter, too. It would be so neat to have a greenhouse, to enjoy some of these plants year round!

Kay- Thank you...I'd love to have you walk through the garden. It's not that big, but I do love it...even though some parts are still 'under construction'. I think I may have gotten a little arch happy, but they do add a lot to the gardens, with the honeysuckle and the clematis. I even have a little climbing rose against the corner of the porch...so far, hidden from the deer :)

My mom has two Zephirine Drouhin roses that are still blooming...and the fragrance is amazing! They smell like those fancy rose soaps. They started out at my house, but didn't like all the moisture from the creek, so I took them up to my mom's and they've gotten huge. We just got the babies last spring and they're almost five feet tall! LOL

Soxxxx: do you mean elaeagnus (silverthorn)?

I would also love a stroll in your garden, LL. We don't have enough sun for roses or many herbs, although I do grow the herbs in pots on the deck and they do alright. I just brought my jasmine and gardenia plants indoors yesterday and am looking forward to blooms and fragrance this winter. The jasmine is incredible and gardenia is always wonderful.

I would love to try some nepeta and/or lavender in my h*ll strip when I get around to turning it into a garden, but it gets only part sun at best and that is being optimistic! :(

Great topic!

Cyn- My Hidcote lavender has done well in a partial shade area. It gets morning sun, but afternoon shade and it seems quite happy. It doesn't bloom as much as the lavender in front (south side) but it still smells lovely.

I only have a small shady area, although I have some nice partial shade gardens. The roses still do well there, but if I had more shade...I think I'd do a woodland garden. Lots of woodland hyacinths, bleeding heart, ferns, wild phlox, violets. And bee balm...I do have that with sweet woodruff and columbine...and they like a little shade :)

That is it Merilia.

elaeagnus pungens 'Fruitlandi'

I did not have resources to look up the correct spelling at the time I posted. I have found that people are divided on liking and disliking that plant. I am one of the likers, both for the silver look and for that once a year heavenly smell.

The only things that smell good right now are the tea olive and roses. I had to cut my Reve D'Or rose way back on the street side. Three and four ft. long branches were where they would hit trick-or-treaters.

I have lots of shade. The problem is that my house is near a curve of the street. The late west sun shines in under the trees. Subsequently any shade plants fry in the late afternoon (5:00 ish).
I have begun planting taller plants that can take sun on the west edge of that garden area.
There is a family that raises lavender commercially here in NW central Texas.
I thought you might enjoy the link.

Kathy

Here is a link that might be useful: Hill country Lavender

Eleagnus pungens is one of those scents you catch and then have to look around for where it's coming from. They are in full bloom now here but the flowers are so small you only see them after you have smelt them and gone looking.

LL, a woodland garden is what I will be doing in the back. Had the beginnings of it until the Galloping Gardeners arrived on the scene. They are starting to calm down some now (after 4.5 years with us!), so I am hoping next spring...

I may try some lavender at the top of the hill where I do get morning sun for about half the day and then more in the afternoon when the sun gets past some trees.

Thanks for the encouragement! Off to look up Eleagnus pungens!

In early summer it's the Hesperis matronalis, dame's rocket & thankfully it hasn't been a reseeding problem due to use of mulch. It scents the entire front yard & is still blooming now!

So many smell good with more fragrance on dry days after the sun has warmed them.

Anise hyssop
bee balm - some more fragrant than others & at different times of the day & garden season
hosta
phlox
Nepeta (Walker's Low my favorite)
annuals white Nicotania & snapdragon
daylilies
lavender
Darlow's Enigma rose (scents the yard when at least 6 clusters are blooming - just beware of the fish hook thorns!)
fresh leaves of spearmint & rosemary sprigs
oregano & thyme

I just love herbs for drying & storing over winter for cooking & teas. As the official 'snipper' I enjoy them most of all.

I love roses growing amongst herbs. I grow Lavenders, Rosemary, Sages, Chamomile, and many other herbs, but I must say, Rosemary, Sage and Lavender are my favorites. I love Lemon Verbena and Lemon Grass, but they are tender here. I would love to live where I could grow a big pot of Bay in the center of my herb garden surrounded by Curry plant and some Eucalyptus. I Love Herbs...And they smell awesome with roses!

Corrine- I have a Darlow's Enigma, but it's planted in the middle of a round garden, so the thorns haven't been a problem, so far. I'd like to get some rosemary, even if it's only an annual, here. Maybe I could bring it inside, in the winter.

Annie- A bay would be nice! Roses and herbs are such a wonderful combination :)

Oh, and I finally figured out what smelled so good in the fairy garden. It was the pineapple mint, lavender, sage, etc. but the sweet woodruff was starting to freeze at the bottom and the lower leaves (the ones hidden underneath) were starting to slowly rot. Sounds terrible, but smells wonderful! Go figure. LOL

Lavender Lass-Sweet Woodruff has been grown since ancient times for stuffing mattresses and pillows. They do have a wonderful smell, always suprising from such diminuative little flowers.

When I was out walking around my house in the snow the other day I noticed a wonderful fragrance which must be from the lavender plants around the roses. As well the roses still have flowers on them altho they also have been frozen. I had never noticed any fragrance this late in the season other years so it was quite an enjoyable surprise. I expect it was because it had warmed up and the temps were above freezing.

I love rosemary and bought quite a few plants this year both for containers and beds. I'm not trying to winter them over indoors as in past years I've found that to be too labor intensive. They don't appreciate the dry-ish air in my house and often have spider mites so it's easier to buy new ones each year.

I've tried to grow sweet woodruff but it didn't survive and I think it needs a warmer zone. Would have been a lovely plant in my shade garden.

Luckygal, Sweet Woodruff grows wild up in my Big Woods. Since I have been adding a lot of wood chips and leaves to my garden beds, some has begun to grow in my garden along the pathways. I love its faery-like leaves.

Luckygal, I was able to grow it in my 3A garden up on the MN/Ontario border. I grew it in full sun but against a fence where the snow would drift considerably over it. I didn't know it was considered marginally hardy when I planted it. In this part of AK they grow it in semi-shade areas. It seems to be a plant that needs a bit more coverage in the winter on the whole.

I planted the woodruff in my shade garden in partial shade but the area gets very little snow cover because of the trees so that's probably why it didn't survive. Will have to reconsider where to put this plant if I get it again. There is an area under tall trees that gets sun and snow that is still undeveloped (unplanted) which might be a better place. It could spread to it's heart's content there.