Sweet smell of success
In this extract from AG 17 January 1957, Christopher Lloyd, of Great Dixter fame, looks at herbaceous plants with a fragrance
O earn our highest praise, a plant must not only look beautiful over a long period of time, but it must also be pleasantly scented. And if the scent is very good, we can even dispense with the beauty – as with mignonette. It is in shrubs that we look mostly for scent – honeysuckles or jasmine that lack it have a strong prejudice in us to overcome –
