Richard Lyons Nursery has a big selection, but it's more of a general tropical landscape place.

Plant Creations has mostly Florida natives, including some unusual fragrant shrubs and such, and a few non-natives.

Bloomin' Good is now open only by appointment, but I got some great plants when they were doing mail order; they may have stuff that nobody else carries.

Finally, Fairchild Tropical Gardens has, like most botanic gardens, limited stock and higher prices, but their annual plant sales are legendary for the rare and unusual; also, their quarterly magazine has adds for many local nurseries, look for it in their library or gift shop, or borrow a copy from a friend.

Have fun looking!

Jim

Gardino's up in Palm Beach, but they have a large selection of fragrant plants, and very high quality.

Creations is a native nursery!
so that's why they are pushing the natives.
See if they still carry fiddlewood.
Wonderful fragrance!

Gardino's mainly sells at plant sales.
If you see something on their website,
call ahead and they will bring it to the sale.
I grow/grown most of their flowering / fragrant plants
and can tell you which ones that are worth growing and which are not.

I have the aloysia planted in my front yard
and it smells wonderful.
But right now the dombeyas are in full bloom and the fragrance is intoxifing! - Is that a word????...........cheryl

You mentioned Hall's honeysuckle.
Had that. It was out the next year.
Way too big and not enough smell time.
Jasmine officinate on the other hand,
is just as fragrant blooms everyday of the year.

The white brunfelsia, I have a bunch of them.
Some are fragrant, but you have to stick your nose in them. The B, densifolia on the other hand,
blooms everyday, all year long and fragrant at night.
As for gardenias, Sid is selling a gardenia tree
called "Heaven scent" and it flowers year around,
except when the temps drop below 70.
I am very please with mine.

Here's a picture of my pink dombeya.
Grows to about 10 foot - I "standard" mine.
Flowers are 4" - 5" across.
Tree limb took it out last spring.
But I have plenty of offspring.
I still have my white dombeya - smells like gardenia.
Wish there was smell-a-computer.

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The wildlife comes around when the fruit gets ripe.
I had the sweetest, tasting caranbola tree
till the squirrels found it.
Last year we took it out, they ate a bite out of every fruit!.
I lost my ever-bearing malberry to the mockingbirds.
I'll stick to flowers.
But than again, the squirrels eat all my
stemmadenia tree seeds before I can harvest them!

We can grow several gardenias down here,
but most people don't know how to take care of them.
I'm lucky to have a Gardenia specist right down the street from me. Carrolls Nursery.
Back in his hey-day, he grew and grafted thousands of gardenia bushes.
He says that people plant them in the ground
or plant them in a MG mix and expect miracles.
They need a very acid soil.
They need special fertilizer several times a year
and it's a constant battle with the
thrips and everthing else that attacts them.
I personally only grow 2 varieties ,
but have several plants that have that gardenia fragrance.

White dombeya

Cheryl, I don't have anything outside for the iguanas to eat besides the nanas but they still hang around my yard and eat everything. Hopefully the last couple of days when we had a cold snap did 'em in. (sorry but they are just too destructive!)

Paulope, if you want a wonderfully fragrant small tree try michelia alba. Mine is vigorous and blooms about every 2 or 3 weeks. My across the street neighbor tells me the scent even wafts over to her house and she wishes she had gotten the same kind that I have. She got hers from a nursery in Davie that said it was a michelia alba too but the leaves, the one or two flowers she's gotten, the scent, etc are completely different from my tree. I got mine from the Tropical nursery on the west coast of Florida :) A little pricey but well worth it. Last flush had at least 50 incredible flowers.