Fragrant Plants

The top Agastache in 2024 Penn State Trials with a 4.92 rating! The spikes of coral-orange tubular flowers are produced throughout the growing season with the nectar rich flowers attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators. Summerlong™ Coral Hummingbird Mint was selected for its well-branched mounded habit, growing to about 16-24" high and wide, as well as for its long flowering season that begins earlier and lasts longer than many similar cultivars making it a great choice for containers, whether as a specimen or in mixed company. The flowers are set against a backdrop of deer-resistant, deep green, fragrant foliage. For optimum vigor and flowering provide a full to mostly sunny site, in a fertile, average moist soil, with good to excellent drainage. Item# 13497

This award winning Agastache produces spikes of sunny yellow tubular flowers throughout the growing season with the nectar rich flowers attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators. Summerlong™ Lemon Hummingbird Mint was selected for its well-branched mounded habit, growing to about 16-24" high and wide, as well as for its long flowering season that begins earlier and lasts longer than many similar cultivars making it a great choice for containers, whether as a specimen or in mixed company. The flowers are set against a backdrop of deer-resistant, deep green, fragrant foliage. For optimum vigor and flowering provide a full to mostly sunny site, in a fertile, average moist soil, with good to excellent drainage. Summerlong™ Lemon Agastache was selected as a Colorado State University Outstanding Plant in 2024 Trials. Images courtesy of Ball Horticulture, all rights reserved. Item# 13496

A 2024 UGA Classic City Award winner! The spikes of pink tinged lilac tubular flowers are produced throughout the growing season with the nectar rich flowers attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators. Summerlong™ Lilac Hummingbird Mint was selected for its well-branched mounded habit, growing to about 16-24" high and wide, as well as for its long flowering season that begins earlier and lasts longer than many similar cultivars making it a great choice for containers, whether as a specimen or in mixed company. The flowers are set against a backdrop of deer-resistant, deep green, fragrant foliage. For optimum vigor and flowering provide a full to mostly sunny site, in a fertile, average moist soil, with good to excellent drainage. Item# 13498

The spikes of magenta tubular flowers are produced throughout the growing season with the nectar rich flowers attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators. Summerlong™ Magenta Hummingbird Mint was selected for its well-branched mounded habit, growing to about 16-24" high and wide, as well as for its long flowering season that begins earlier and lasts longer than many similar cultivars making it a great choice for containers, whether as a specimen or in mixed company. The flowers are set against a backdrop of deer-resistant, deep green, fragrant foliage. For optimum vigor and flowering provide a full to mostly sunny site, in a fertile, average moist soil, with good to excellent drainage. Images courtesy of Ball Horticulture, all rights reserved.Item# 13598

An Almost Eden Exclusive introduction! 'Sunset Scentsation' Night Blooming Jasmine has proven to be a vigorous repeat blooming selection, producing waves of the famously fragrant blooms about every 6 weeks during the growing season. The tubular white to greenish-white blooms begin to release their wonderful perfume at sunset and continues through early morning. This is a vigorous growing tropical shrub in warmer regions, or grow as a perennial in zone 8B. Item # 528.

Often throughout summer, small, fragrant beautiful bell-shaped nearly white to blue flowers with gracefully recurving 'petals' (in Clematis it is the large colorful sepals that we often most enjoy) of light blue, blue, or purple. Grow the Swamp Leather Flower as a small perennial herbaceous vine that may top out at 5' but can reach 9' high. It can be cut back to 1-2' in later winter after the buds have begun to swell. Item# 10224.

Sweetly fragrant spikes of tiny white flowers are produced from spring or early summer until frost on this little known but easy to grow and tough deciduous shrub. Its intensely fragrant flowers attract a host of mainly smaller pollinators and it is considered to be an especially good honey plant. Sweet Almond Verbena, Aloysia virgata, is a vigorous and pest free, heat and sun loving loving, large shrub to small tree growing to 8-10' high and 6-8' wide. In areas that experience hard freezes, like zone 8 and 9, the plants act like die-back perennials freezing to near ground level and then regrowing in spring. Plant it with Sweet Olive, Gardenia, and Banana Magnolia to have outdoor fragrance nearly year round in zones 8-9. The 2008 Florida Plant of the Year! Item# 11894

Medium to large pyramidal clusters of golden yellow flowers are produced in summer and fall attracting a myriad of mainly smaller pollinators with special importance to native bees. Sweet Goldenrod, Solidago odora, is an upright growing, clump-forming, herbaceous, native perennial adorned in anise-scented, deep green, glossy, narrow foliage and the single to multistemmed plants grow to about 2-4' high and 1-2' wide. The flowers and foliage, fresh or dried, is often used to make a very nice herbal tea, as a mild spice in cooking, and could certainly be used in potpourris as well (Bonnie fell in love with the fragrance of the dried seed heads!). The strong fragrance makes them unlikely to be browsed by deer or rabbits. Use Sweet Goldenrod in a sunny perennial border, herb garden, or allow it to naturalize in meadows, prairies, and roadside plantings. Provide a full to mostly sunny site in an average moist, acidic soil with good drainage, but otherwise plants are fairly adaptable. Item# 10684

If pollinated, the exotic white and purple flowers produce tangerine sized, large golden yellow fruit with a sweet and tangy but acidic tropical tasting orange flesh that surrounds the small seeds. Sweet Sunrise Passion Fruit is a vigorous growing selection of Passiflora edulis var. flavicarpa. and the ripened fruits can be juiced or eaten fresh. Provide a full to mostly sunny site for optimum vigor and flowering in a well-drained fertile soil. The nectar rich flowers attract larger bees for pollination like bumblebees and carpenter bees. Two different cultivars are required for cross pollination. Item# 11812

Clusters of 6-8" wide night fragrant white flowers with long thin narrow petals and a wavy circular hymen are borne in summer atop the sturdy 2-3' high stems of this heirloom garden favorite. Tropical Giant Spider Lily is a vigorous clump forming, evergreen (to deciduous where freezes occur) bulbous perennial with large glossy medium green sword-shaped upright to arching foliage that readily multiplies into a dense clump of foliage and flowers. It makes an easy and low maintenance addition to the garden or landscape as well as an easy and forgiving container specimen plant. The lush, large sword-like, rich green upright to arching foliage is attractive even when the plant is not in flower. We ship large established plants growing in their own soil and container. Item# 1239

2" wide, sweetly fragrant, double white flowers are produced mainly in spring with occasional repeat and are held against a foil of deep green foliage edged in creamy yellow to creamy white. The Variegated Radicans Dwarf Gardenia is a low, mound forming, evergreen shrub slowly building to 1-2' high and about 2' wide making it an easy and low maintenance addition to the garden or landscape. *The plants can tolerate full sun but typically have the deepest green foliage where it receives some shade during the hottest portion of the day particularly in hot summer climates. Provide an acid, fertile, average moist soil with good drainage for optimum vigor and flowering. Rarely available in the nursery trade. The fragrant flowers attract bees, butterflies, and other smaller pollinators as well as the pollinating, hummingbird-like Sphinx moths making it a good choice for Moon Moth gardens. Item# 4072

Clusters of 3-4" long, tubular, waxy buds open to display the long-lasting starry white wonderfully fragrant flowers that are held against equally beautiful ovate foliage that is edged and randomly splashed in creamy yellow that matures to white and silver as well as often having a silvery overlay. Flowers on and off throughout the warmer months of the year to year-round in warm tropical conditions. Variagated Stephanotis or Madagascar Jasmine, a selection of Stephanotis floribunda, is an evergreen tropical twining vine that makes an easy container plant and is readily trained to small to medium sized trellises although it can climb to 12-15' high where it has a support. This is an old favorite and as Liberty Hyde Bailey states in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture "is one of the best greenhouse climbers" and "There are few plants that have all the good qualities of S. floribunda. It is a splendid grower, has good foliage, is very free flowering, and the flowers last well on the plant or when cut for decorative work." Provide a quality well-drained fertile soil in light shade to full sun. Stephanotis is an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Item# 9394

Originally touted as the "Blue Rose", this heirloom climbing or rambling rose produces large clusters of 1-1/2" wide, fragrant, deep purple flowers, often with white accents and nicely contrasting yellow stamens, with the flower color deepeing into blue-purple tones as they age. Flowering occurs in mid to late spring to early summer, with flowering occurring earlier in warmer zones. Vielchenblau Climbing Rose is a vigorous, nearly thornless, rambling multi-flora hybrid growing to about 10-12' high making it a good choice as a pillar rose or it can be trained along a fence or other sturdy support. Due to its reliable performance and moderate disease resistance it has been selected as an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. While Vielchenblau is tolerant of *partial shade, a full sun location with good air circulation and a fertile, average moist soil with good drainage are preferred for optimum growth, disease resistance, and flowering. Item# 715

With a dwarf habit and one of the longest blooming seasons of any Gardenia this is definitely a prized garden shrub or indoor plant. Produces an abundance of the highly fragrant, double white flowers are produced throughout much of the year when kept warm and in good health.  Item# 717

Strongly fragrant 3" creamy white single flowers are held against the large deep green glossy foliage on this vigorous evergreen shrub with a naturally dense and rounded habit. The Vietnamese Gardenia is much easier to grow than many Gardenias as it is more tolerant of overly moist soils as well as drought once established and has high resistance to Nematodes and other pests. This is one of the most free flowering Gardenias in our collection! Item# 9592

Dense flattened clusters of dainty white tubular flowers top the narrow blue-green to green fragrant foliage in summer. The small nectar rich flowers of Virginia Mountain Mint, Pycnanthemum virginianum, attract a wide variety of pollinators, and are especially important to native bees. This is a rhizomatous native perennial that will readily spread especially in moist soils. It is native mainly to the northcentral and northeastern US and is typically found in moist soils but can tolerate drier sites where it is less likely to spread aggressively. Virginia Mountain Mint is tolerant of a wide variety of soil types from clay, to sandy, to rocky as well as calcareous soils. Item# 12355

Large clusters of lightly fragrant, 1 to 1-1/2" wide, 4-'petaled' white flowers often with light green accents are produced in mid to late summer attracting bees, hummingibirds, and other pollinators. The Virgin's Bower, Clematis virginiana, is a vigorous, deciduous, woody native vine climbing via tendril-like leaf petioles up to about 20' high where it has support. It is deer and rabbit resistant, is adaptable to soil types and moisture levels, as well as sunlight, although, plants grown in sun to part shade may flower more profusely. This is not to be confused with the invasive Sweet Autumn Clematis, Clematis terniflora, which has entire or smooth leaflet edges and the foliage is thick and leathery, whereas, Virgin's Bower, C. virginiana, has toothed leaflets and the foliage tends to be a darker green. Female flowers may be followed by densely 'bearded', long lasting seed heads. Note: These are seed raised plants which may have only male, only female, or both flower types on the same plant. Flower and overall plant images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. Item# 13179

Large clusters of deep orange-red trumpet shaped flowers are centered by a contrasting bright white and sunny yellow starry throat and sit atop 16-24" high sturdy stems in spring. Voodoo or Naughty Lady Amaryllis is a tough and vigorous, hardy garden bulb that multiplies quickly and developing into a near solid mass of bulbs and flower stalks. Considered as choice and reliable for the garden and landscape as St. Joseph's Lily. Can be enjoyed as an easy and low maintenance container plant where not hardy. Provide a full to mostly sunny site in an average to well-drained, fertile soil for optimum vigor and flowering. Item# 10496