The royal families of India and Persia designed night gardens with the most fragrant flowers that would perfume the night air with sensual odors. See our list below of the best fragrant flowers for your garden.
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Sold outHemerocallis citrina 'Yao Ming'
Item #: 6875
Zones: 3a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hosta 'Essence of Summer'
Item #: 13480
Zones: 3a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outHosta 'Simply Divine'
Item #: 13313
Zones: 3a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hosta 'Stained Glass'
Item #: 4232
Zones: 3a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hymenocallis pygmaea 'South of the Border'
Item #: 18544
Zones: 7a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris lazica
Item #: 2523
Zones: 7b to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Caucasus Mountains, Mediterranean Europe, Turkey
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris unguicularis 'Dazzling Eyes'
Item #: 9823
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris unguicularis 'Francis Wolseley'
Item #: 6636
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mediterranean Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $23.20Regular priceUnit price per$29.00Sale price $23.20Sale -
Iris unguicularis 'Front Drive'
Item #: 18523
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Africa, Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Jasminum officinale 'Frojas'
Item #: 6245
Zones: 7a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 120" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Lavandula x intermedia 'Phenomenal' PP 24,193
Item #: 6216
Zones: 4a to 7b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Lilium formosanum Giant Form
Item #: 1356
Zones: 6a to 10a, at least
Dormancy: Winter, Fall
Height: 84" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Taiwan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $19.20Regular priceUnit price per$24.00Sale price $19.20Sale -
Lilium x sulphurgale 'Vico Gold'
Item #: 15362
Zones: 6a to 10a, at least
Dormancy: Winter, Fall
Height: 84" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Nothoscordum sellowianum
Item #: 6448
Zones: 7a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 1" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Argentina
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $16.80Regular priceUnit price per$21.00Sale price $16.80Sale -
Sold outPachysandra procumbens 'Jackson'
Item #: 16627
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outPaeonia 'Angel Cheeks'
Item #: 15766
Zones: 3a to 8a
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 28" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outPaeonia 'Cora Stubbs'
Item #: 4494
Zones: 3a to 8a
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 32" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outPaeonia ostii 'Feng Dan Bai'
Item #: 2527
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $75.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Phlox paniculata 'John Fanick'
Item #: 7383
Zones: 3a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Phlox paniculata 'Opalescence' PP 33,295
Item #: 17114
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Phlox paniculata 'Thai Pink Jade' PP 22,961
Item #: 13504
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Polianthes x bundrantii 'Pink Sapphire' PP 26,460
Item #: 12279
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Polianthes tuberosa 'The Pearl'
Item #: 18797
Zones: 8a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Polygonatum infundiflorum 'Lemon Seoul'
Item #: 5473
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Korea
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per
More Information About Fragrant Flowers
The Most Fragrant Flowers in the Garden
(Stop and smell the roses, and the agave, and the lavender, and the ... )
Fragrant Flowers are an often overlooked (or under-smelled) feature of the garden. But planting a garden full of fragrant flowers delights the nose, both day and night. The royal families of India and Persia knew this and designed night gardens near their palace balconies with fragrant flowers that would perfume the night air with sensual odors.
Plant Delights Nursery has a large number of the most fragrant flowers for you to choose from. Some of our favorite fragrant plants are listed below:
The Best Fragrant Flowers for Your Garden
- Agave whose flowers smell like French fries,
- Aloysia virgata with sweetly fragrant white flowers
- Berlandiera whose flowers smell like milk chocolate,
- Dianthus with flowers that smell like cloves,
- Edgeworthia with a wonderful sweet fragrance at the end of winter,
- Jasminum the flower used by the moghuls of India in their scented gardens,
- Verbesina which smells just like Tootsie Rolls,
- Hedychium features honeysuckle-scented flowers in late summer
- Tiarella is for those with sensitive noses. Some fragrances may be overwhelming, Tiarella has softly fragrant flowers.
- Nicotiana - The sweetly fragrant flowers make everyone's top 10 list
- Convallaria (Lily of the Valley) has small but fragrant flowers
- Polianthes is so fragrant that they use it in the perfume industry
- Brugmansia has large trumpet-like flowers with a pleasing fragrance
- Lavender has fragrant flowers popular in soaps.
See also our many blog posts about fragrant flowers