In this extract from AG 29 November 1975, Christopher Lloyd scented flowers for the garden
TO some gardeners (often the smoking fraternity) scent means nothing, yet to others it brings as much interest and enjoyment as any feast for the eyes. Scents are of many kinds and we owe as much to the aromatic qualities of leaves as to the flowers themselves, but it is on the year-round and varied fragrance of many kinds of garden flowers that I shall concentrate.
The climbers that we grow on house walls or on fences and arbours, embowering us where we sit out, should be scented if possible. Best among the honeysuckles is our own native woodbine, , and this has a number of varieties that are brighter in ‘Serotina’. Even if pruned hard in winter it starts flowering in late June and continues without pause into autumn.
