Advice on curating a colorful garden with scent and fragrance, including guides to plant positions, combinations, and maintenance.
This is the essential guide to the broad range of spectacular scented plants that will bring color and interest to your gardens throughout the year with fragrant flowers and foliage. Gardening with Scented Plants guides readers to design gardens that are a pleasure to the senses, from aesthetic delights to enticing fragrances that attract bees, butterflies, and birds to bring your garden to life.
In this book, Kew expert Tony Hall has profiled over two hundred plant species and cultivars of all types that are perfectly suited to all sizes of gardens, large and small. Following the structure of the previous installments in the series, Gardening with Drought-Friendly Plants and Gardening with Winter Plants, with tips on planting positions, plant combinations, and pruning, Hall ensures success for all readers.
Gardening with Scented Plants is arranged by plant type and includes annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees. An easy-to-use reference guide indicating flowering months, plant colors, and scent makes this an indispensable tool for gardeners of all abilities.
About the Author
Tony Hall is head of Temperate Collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and has a wide interest in horticulture and gardening. He is the author of Gardening with Winter Plants, Gardening with Drought Friendly Plants, The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Roses, Great Trees of Britain and Ireland, and The Immortal Yew, also published by Kew.
