So it’s time to get acquainted with the flavors of spicy cultures. Today we will select plants-doubles, which are almost impossible to distinguish by smell. Also in the fragrant show, floral perennial and annual crops, shrubs, flowers of which exude spicy aromas, are perfumed.
A rich palette of spicy smells will be complemented by plants with honey, vanilla, chocolate smells.
So you will have plenty to choose from the next green Pets with your favorite flavors for your favorite garden.
Selecting fragrant perennials, shrubs, you can arrange a spicy flower garden for many years.
Adding a bit of flowering plants to it, you will get a surprisingly beautiful fragrant corner of the garden, which will surely become a favorite place of rest for you and your guests.
In this mixborders can not do without the sage, thyme, or thyme, mints, marjoram, lemon balm, oregano and so on.
Doubles with a specific aroma
Southern goddess fragrances for a long time and is deservedly considered Lavandula angustifolia. Its rich sweet smell is difficult to copy, so even in the Northern regions the true fans of lavender grow it in pots and containers.
The ideal soil substrate for it is a mixture of sod, leaf soil and sand, taken in a ratio of 1:1:2.
The most accurate stand-ins luxurious scent of lavender are considered to be interspecific hybrids of L. latifolia – lavandini.
Their scent, and the resemblance with lavender is amazing. In addition, the smell of lavender was able to copy (albeit not as accurately as relatives Lavandin) Salvia apiana.
Salvia apiana – silver perennial up to 1.3 m. it Comes from the United States. When grown in pots, the height can be adjusted by trimming. The strongest aroma is heard when rubbing the leaves.
Managed to repeat the aroma of lavender and mint variety ‘Eaude Cologne’.
The peculiar aroma of Pimpinella anisum, syn. Anisum vulgare, but today it successfully copies a number of different plants.
So, he echoes Agastache foeniculum, syn. Lophanthus anisatus. Its leaves and inflorescences with spicy sweet taste even in dried form retain a strong smell of anise.
Ocimum basilicum also has a double. It’s a sort of ‘Anise scent’. Interestingly, the seeds of anise and Foeniculum vulgare are interchangeable, as they contain the same base material responsible for the anise taste and aroma – anethole. Anise seeds are sweeter.
In addition, the aroma of anise is copied from the fruits of Illicium verum – an evergreen tree growing in China, which are called star anise. But the taste of anise, according to the most famous chefs in the world, is similar to tarragon, or rather Artemisia dracunculus.
There is also a kind of sage with the aroma of anise – S. guaranitica: when rubbing its leaves, the smell of anise is felt quite clearly.
Marigolds ‘Anise aroma’ with a sweet smell of anise and tarragon are no longer considered a rarity, their seeds can often be seen on sale.
If you like the aroma of anise, then in the background mixborder plant Myrrhis odorata. The whole plant is fragrant with a strong aniseed smell.
Vanilla-scented doubles
Perhaps the most striking owner of honey-vanilla flavor –Heliotropium Peruvian.
All its varieties have a strong aroma. This annuals can be grown not only outdoors, but also in containers, garden vases (especially dwarf varieties), placing them in recreational areas.
In June-July, vanilla flavor and smell of blossoming meadowsweet and their varieties:
- Filipendula ulmaria;
- F. vulgaris.
In the same summer months (about 4 weeks) fragrant vanilla and honey Asperula odorata, syn. Galium odoratum.
This forest ground cover plant blooms profusely with small white fragrant star flowers.
Summer in the South of vanilla or almond (or vanilla almond) smell varieties of Nerium oleander.
The aroma is characteristic of both cream and pink, reddish, white varieties, but you can feel it only at a close distance.
In addition, the smell of vanilla is characteristic of flowers Viburnum farreri, blooming in the South since November.
Doubles with mint (menthol) aroma
The standard of mint flavor is rightly considered Mentha. They demonstrate not only the classic mint flavor, but also the smell of chocolate, cinnamon, musk and so on.
The same fresh fragrance and some varieties of scented pelargonium.
In the summer it can be planted in the fragrant flower beds.
Notes of mint, you can catch the aroma of the flowers of the rose cultivar ‘Feodosia beauty’.
Light sweet-mint aroma is characteristic of flowers of semi-evergreen shrub – Abelia x grandiflora.
It begins a spectacular bloom in July, and tirelessly continues until October.
Cinnamon-scented doubles
Cinnamon smells brown-red Perilla frutescens, which can be planted in the form of a curb.
It can successfully replace the Basil varieties ‘cinnamon’, reddish-green leaves which also smell of cinnamon.
As a structural plant with cinnamon flavor in the flower beds can be introduced Amberboa moschata with yellow flowers.
Clove-scented doubles
Spicy clove fragrance exude flowers of almost all kinds and varieties of Dianthus.
Undersized cloves are used for borders, group and single plantings in mixed borders and rockeries.
Doubles with chocolate aroma
This is the most desirable fragrant plants, as surely there are no people who would not like the aroma of chocolate. Therefore, in the flower beds are welcome plants with the smell: Cosmos atrosanguineus, peppermint bushes ‘Chocolate’.
In addition, you can not do without the “chocolate” irises varieties ‘Brasier’, ‘Brasilia’ and others.
Honey-scented doubles
Honey smells blooming Lobularia maritima. Its aroma is so strong and bright that the flowers do not even need to bend down to feel it.
In the midst of summer comes the finest hour of Buddleja davidii.
Sometimes the spicy smell is complemented by sweet shades, so it is called sweet-spicy aroma. It is so fragrant flowers Phlox paniculata. The most fragrant of its varieties, blooming in July, include:
- ‘Anne’;
- ‘Pallas Athene’;
- ‘Dorffreude’.
But this is my story about the doubles the most of all of the fragrances would not be complete: I didn’t mention plants with pungent odors, which will tell in my next article. To be continued…