10 Fragrant Plants That Will Make Your Garden Smell Amazing

Whether your garden is cozy and cottage-style or manicured and orderly, a sweet scent will entice you to stop and breathe in its beauty. After all, a garden should engage all of your senses. "Texture, color and seasonality are all important concepts, but scent often is overlooked when designing a garden," says Boyce Tankersley, director of living plant documentation at the Chicago Botanic Garden. "Fragrance adds an extra layer of richness to the landscape." Even if you don't have a huge yard, you still can indulge in the luxury of scented plants. Place them where they will be most appreciated such as in containers near your front door, along walkways where you'll brush by them and release their sweetness, or near windows where you can pick up their scents on the breeze.

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Try adding a few of these fragrant favorites to enhance your garden's personality:

From: Country Living

1 Sweet Alyssum

Tiny blooms on this delicate annual beckon to pollinators. Sweet alyssum looks lovely cascading from containers, window boxes and hanging baskets or tucked into a rock garden as a flowering ground cover. Likes full to part sun.

Try:

•Snow Princess: profuse white blooms all season long without deadheading

•Dark Knight: deep purple blooms pair well with other annuals in containers

Courtesy of Proven Winners

2 Honeysuckle

This showy, vigorous perennial vine spills beautifully over a trellis or fence-line and pollinators love it, says Tankersley. Look for the native or newer types, which are not invasive like Japanese honeysuckle. Prefers full sun.