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Top 10 Plants for Autumn Fragrance
13.09.2023 - 15:09 / theenglishgarden.co.uk / Clare Foggett
The air in the garden in autumn hangs thick with melancholy and wistfulness as the year’s growing season enters its final phase. Including plants that release autumn fragrance adds an intriguing twist to the atmosphere, seasoning the garden with a sweetness that belies the lingering air of faded glory that pervades it.
Evening primrose is a true cottage-garden classic. ‘True’ in that it seems to have been pretty much consigned to the history books as a plant that is no longer fashionable to grow. But try it and you’ll immediately understand the folly of that thinking: the delightful buttery yellow blooms unfold in the evening, releasing a delicious fragrance. This tall biennial plant grows to 1.5m tall and prefers well-drained soil and full sun.
The heady scent of the tobacco plant will add decadence to an evening stroll around the garden. Growing to 60cm tall, it is less than half the size of the statuesque, trumpet-flowered N. sylvestris, but what it lacks in height it makes up for in fragrance. The delicate flowers are best preserved by growing it in semi-shade. Chiltern Seeds have a good selection of seeds for spring sowing.
In autumn, the glorious colour of the katsura tree has the power to stop passers-by in their tracks. As its leaves age to a beautiful mix of orange, yellow and pink, they release a molecule called maltol, which is the same one released when sugar is burnt to make caramel. This slow-growing tree can eventually exceed 12m tall.
Seeing camellias in flower late in the year is a hint of things to come when spring rolls round. Grow Camellia sasanqua in pots of lime-free compost by a sheltered wall, since they need protection from extreme cold. They love the sun more than C. japonica, but their roots
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