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One of my favorite things about a garden is the delicious smells - almost intoxicating sometimes. But what plants will be fragrant and suitable for a mixed garden of fragrance? Here's a list of some great fragrant plants - ground covers, perennials, annuals and more.

Enjoy!

Blessings, Angela <><

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A new flowering happening!!! Eucalypts come in many different colours and forms,hardy and rewarding,there one for any garden....

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Eremophilas....love 'em

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Ive been abit slack with this but havent really had much to talk about. . .

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Posted by Sometimes Unwilling Guru Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-17, 00:53:09

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My first time participating in Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. Truthfully, it could not be on a worse day for me - the 15th of the month always finds me scrambling to get the Washington Gardener Enews finished and sent out. The current issue is now uploading so I have a minute to put up these three pics from my garden this afternoon. I have about 25 more bloomers today, but decided instead of throwing them all up here I'd go with a pink-theme display. From left to right here are a Japanese Anemone, Cosmos, and Wiegela shrub.

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-17, 00:52:25

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What a reliable plant this is- Sedum Autumn Joy, every year without fail it shows up to do its work of bringing color and shape to the fall garden. I'm not quite sure how this happened but we actually have four of them - one in each bed- here is one forming a nice trio with the Wiegela and fuschia. A couple of things I don't like about it is that it gets a little awkward when the flowers really start to color . It gets top heavy and loses the tight shape that it had and starts to tumble over. The other is that it attracts a serious contingent of bees- a little worrisome when you have a little French Bulldog shadowing you while gardening only because I've seen so many reports of their bad reactions to bee stings. I like them as cut flowers because they are so architectural- see the photo above where they cast all kinds of interesting shadows in the morning light.

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Posted by The Occasional Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to sedum on 2007-09-17, 00:52:13

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I love this column. Every week I read the Spade and the Spoon. Never disappointed. Check it out. Does Idaho have this program? If not, why not?

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RIEGER BEGONIA

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions --
so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance,
so small in size yet big in beauty,
so short in life yet long on effect. 
~Adabella Radici

Have a Happy...

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When I was in the garden the other day I noticed that my Clematis Jackmani was in it’s third bloom of the season. I suspect this will be the last as the nights have gotten fairly cold lately. . .

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A stroll through the mid-September garden - (Click on image for larger view)

Hyacinth Bean vine

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Posted by Phillip Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-17, 00:50:34

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… of the first half of September anyway.  It's been yet another bumper crop of roses in what has been an outstanding season.  During the last few weeks, I've been taking photos of only what I think are the nicest blossoms.  That's because for most of them, I've already posted so many photos on the web site that I can afford to be picky! Now that the month is half gone, I've gone ahead and posted those fifty photos covering the roses that are in bloom: Double Delight, Fragrant Lace, Heritage, Lagerfeld, Louise Odier, Melody Parfumee, Pat Austin, Peace, Red Ribbons, Sunbright, Sweet Juliet, Tropicana, and Winchester Cathedral.  It was kind of hard deciding on which one to shrink and include in the blog; Tropicana bloomed so seldom this year (I think it doesn't like its north-facing location) that I decided to include it, so here it is.

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Well FINALLY, some rain. It has not rained here since the before the Fair. This quarter inch is welcome, but clearly not enough.

Meanwhile, I gathered up the last offerings of red tomatoes and made another few quarts of tomato sauce. The other thing I have been doing with my extra tomatoes is making a Greek Salad that is just perfectly put together. I found the recipe over in Kalyn’s Kitchen and have made it at least five times this season. The smell of fresh mint and lemon fill the kitchen all morning as the herbs blend with the tomatoes and the feta. Here are the ingredients:

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Posted by Leslie Reblogged by Old Roses to weather on 2007-09-17, 00:49:16

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This is my first attempt at growing dahlias and they have proved to be the glamour girls of the garden.


Next year, a whole chorus line.

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Posted by J.P. Reblogged by Old Roses to dahlias on 2007-09-17, 00:49:05

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I went Yesterday to The Autumn Flowers show in Harrogate, held in the Yorkshire Show grounds.

The last flower show of the year.I took a mere 150 photos only. This was my Fifth trip with Hils since June. . .

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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to shows on 2007-09-17, 00:48:44

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Mississippi Crowder Peas (Cowpeas, Southern Peas, Vigna uniguiculata). Aren't they lovely? The top are the seeds I'm saving for next summer; the bottom, some freshly-shucked peas for tomorrow's sup.

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Posted by Central FLA Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-09-17, 00:48:13

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I bought this 'Confederate Rose' (Hibiscus mutabilis) about a year ago from Bioscape. The bloom starts off almost white, goes pink during the day, and the next day it's practically carmine.
There's quite a lot of variablity in the species. I think I've read that the single blooms throughout the year; this double/triple only started to bloom this week, but if it blooms like last year, it will bloom until hit by frost, and again all spring. The leaves go a bit wilty in the heat of the afternoon sun no matter how much it gets watered, but I'd say it's very drought tolerant: It made it through a dry spring without hardly any irrigation, and it's in almost full afternoon sun.

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Posted by Central FLA Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to hibiscus on 2007-09-17, 00:48:02

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The boy and I put this little garden patch together this sultry day. He looked at me and said, "Dad, this is how hard kids should be working, not sitting on their rumps watching t.v." Emerson says somewhere how eerie it is to hear your own words echoed back to you.

This corn (Silver Queen) went in around August 20th. It's a bit beleaguered by God knows what, but it seems to be growing faster than the bugs can eat it...

Probably too early for this romaine, but I couldn't pass up the nine-pack at Lowes today.

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Posted by Central FLA Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to vegetables on 2007-09-17, 00:47:39

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Glads, from easytogrowbulbs.com. I order from this outfit pretty often. The quality of the bulbs is really outstanding.

The bloom on my Mississippi Silver crowder peas.

Dahlia 'Sunshine' from Easytogrowbulbs.com. I'm really happy with these dahls. I'd had no luck this year with any dahlias, so I'm pleased to see them blooming abundantly now, during the toughest time of the year in FLA.

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Posted by Central FLA Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-17, 00:47:20

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False hellebore, a mountain wildflower, has proven lethal, but scientists hope to harness its powers over cell development and use it to stop cancer.

Originally posted by Julie

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We've had two huge pallets of limestone sitting in the driveway for about three weeks. Due to the weather and another remodeling project we've been unable to start working on framing the flowerbed near the patio. Today was the day, though. . . .

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Lots of variety in bloom here although the quantity of each is certainly less as we head into fall.The snapdragons are just beginning as well as my one trial 'Autumn Joy' sedum which I am liking a lot...maybe I should get a few more...it's always good to have a plant you might need to buy in case you end up at a nursery or plant sale!. . .

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Posted by Leslie Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-17, 00:45:11

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I love this rectangular water feature, but will never have one like it in my curvilinear space. The photo is from Helen Dillon's garden.

I am using a very strict interpretation. As I understand it, Kim asks us to list plants or features that we would not have in our own gardens though we might admire them in the gardens of others. Therefore, I want to make it clear that I have no problem with any of the things I am listing here; some of them I really like a lot. I just wouldn’t, or couldn't, for various reasons, have them in my back yard. . . .

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Posted by EAL Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-09-17, 00:44:43

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The central path at Tom Deacon's garden
A couple of years ago in October, I was invited to give a talk about ornamental grasses to a garden club two hour's drive north of Toronto. One of the draws was an opportunity to visit an outstanding garden that a hort buddy of mine had told me about, the garden of furniture designer Tom Deacon, set on a hilltop in a small clearing in 100 acres of woods near the tiny hamlet of Mulmur, Ontario. . . .

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Posted by Yvonne Cunnington Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-09-17, 00:44:07

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Blackswamp Girl introduced a challenge to write about plants we like when we see them elsewhere, but never really want to put in our personal gardens. Normally, I don't do memes, but it is an interesting theme, and no tagging of other people!. . .

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Posted by millionbells Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-09-17, 00:43:39

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Imagine the smell, the pure, pungent, pregnant weight of the air, . . . the heat. Tomatoes drying

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These are functional garden benches. I loved sitting on the one in the red flower bed. It was at Chanticleer. The other one was at Stryer’s garden center near Valley Forge PA. I would have bought it if I could have gotten it home on the plane.

Thanks CF.

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Kim, aka blackswampgirl, over at A Study in Contrasts, challenged us to come up with a list of things you WOULD NOT find in our gardens. Oh boy, this is a good one. Here goes. . .

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It's a Garden Blogger's bloom day for me!! A wonderful Saturday for looking at my flowers! It's been months since I have participated and I was so excited to finally take part!!
I even found a plant I did not plant! I don't know where this little aster looking guy came from!

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Posted by Sissy Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-17, 00:42:33

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Earlier today I was upstairs and I happened to look out the window at my garden. Much to my surprise and amusement I saw a grey squirrel running around doing some strange stuff.

You see, yesterday evening I was cleaning out our freezer and I found some disgusting frost bitten hamburger buns. Instead of just throwing them in the garbage I decided to crumble up the bread and threw it on the lawn in the backyard for the birds or whatever else was out there to discover. . .

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Delicious.

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Whew… The past two weeks have been just amazingly overwhelming. Children off to school, crazy schedules, weddings, anniversaries, cars breaking down and of course Cleveland weather threatening to destroy the garden in preparation for yet another winter. All in all, this schedule has made me lax in how often I have posted (and I must. . .

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September blooms at May Dreams Gardens, a mixture of new blooms, old blooms, reblooms and a few plants that won't bloom here anymore. . . .

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-17, 00:40:08

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After decades of gardening, I’ve developed a few opinions about what should be included in a garden and what should be avoided in a garden.

And Kim at A Study in Contrast has started a meme on “Not In My Garden” just in time for me to follow up my post about what to do in a new garden with what to avoid in any garden.

Ready? Here goes. . .

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardening on 2007-09-17, 00:36:15

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The pumpkin patch is a bright spot as the days take longer and longer to burn off the misty morning gray. As the end of the green beans is in sight, I'm looking forward to nice pumpkin and spice treats in the months ahead. And the green beans in the freezer will be a treat again about January!

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Posted by Petunia's Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to pumpkins on 2007-09-17, 00:35:38

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This is the birdhouse that Richard built a couple of months ago and hung in a tree in the back yard.

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