Photos from the Scented garden 2

The Biblical named Rose Of Sharon, AKA Hypericum Calycinum.This was growing in the hedge as we were leaving the scented Garden. The flowers, and multicoloured seed pods are great colours. Primary colours I though of.

A delicate rose that has opened after all the rain. They had taken a battering judging by the petals strewn all over the soil around the plants. I love roses, their flowers, leaves, and the scent. Pleasure would be a rose garden to walk up and down sniffing the variety of blooms.I do like the roses I have seen here already mentioned. David Austin here I come..

A Daylily in lemon yellow.Maybe it was Beloved Returns.Im not sure.I can see the attractiveness of collecting these.They are like little works of art, the different colouration and pigmentation.I think there are a few scented ones that they have planted here. Labels get lost or removed, or overgrown with plants!

The Nemesia Wisley Vanilla.It smelt lovely.Like breaking a fresh vanilla pod into boiling milk to start making custard.It was a delicate, sweet fragrance though.

A lillium with white curved petals speckled with burgundy splashes. It reminds me of the Lillium Ponponium I photographed last time in the Alpine house (the chinese lantern flower).This was growing in front of the willow arch seating area.To smell it you need to approach underneath it..As well as to photograph it.I was half lying down under it :)

Yellow flowered Star Jasmine. Like my white flowered one at the flat.It was not as strongly scented as the white one, but the flowers stand against the green of the leaves.

Chocolate cosmos in the scented garden

This is a Dark Flowered one, like Bournville Dark Chocolate...

The Chocolate Cosmos in the Mulched bed...

Flower in detail with jewelled centre..

The flower looks like it has had a slight dusting with confectioners sugar...

How great is Nature? Combining a perennial flower with the looks of a Dahlia, delicate sweet like centre, and reddish/brown Flowers that smell of Vanilla and Chocolate.

It is grown from a Tuber, so can be divided in the spring, or grown from seed. It is usually dug up and stored in a dry place, as a harsh winter would kill it.It likes full sun, and well drained soil I think.

I spent a long time inhaling the choclatey scent of these flowers, and have put on all my photos. I was going to buy a pot (£5.95) from the garden centre. I could not do it though in case the flat killed the plant. I need a garden of my own with soil.

The centres of the flowers look like a Joanne Harris inspired Sweet selection, Can imagine Vianne selling these in her Chocolat shop.

These have been on my wishlist, and to actually smell them is great.Its the first time I have ever seen them in the flesh :)

Chocolate and flowers...Heaven.

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Unknown named flower in an ice cream mix of white and pink.It had fallen over the flowering spike in the recent rain.I love the soft pastel colours, and it was scented of course!

The lovely smelling Nepeta Cataria, which ad fragrant leaves when moved to try and photograph the next photo. It is often used to edge paths for the scent when brushed past.This is on my wishlist now.

The Clematis Petite Foucon with its purple, propellar like flower buds twisting outwards, and cream firework like centre. This also smells fragrant, and flowers for 3 months a year. It needs tying onto climbing support though as it doesnt grip like other Clematis.

The spent flower head of the Clematis Petite Foucon..

The Lovely Apple mint smelt of fresh apples,I'd be forever smelling the plant if i had it in my garden.

Another delicious Pink scented rose, all the roses used here were strongly fragrant with lovely old rose scent.

A sweetly Scented Viburnum I think...Tell me if im wrong :)

The Scented Garden

Return to one of my Favourite places. The Enclosed scented garden. It was dry enough to get down on your knees to sniff every plant and flower. The Wisteria had stopped flowering entirely, whether this was linked to three weeks of rain I dont know. Only the leaves and rope like vines were left on the pergola.

I took more pictures of other plants I found there. Nepeta, apple mint, Newly planted Chocolate Cosmos (they smell sooooo nice,mmm,belgian chocolate), roses like Brother Cadfael, Eglantyne, Rugosa roses, Clematis petite Foucon and unknown pink one growing up besides a climbing red rose, a Viburnum with the most delicate white flowers nestled in shiny green leaves, asiatic lillys, lots of Hemerocallis in bud, a yellow flowered Star Jasmine, Honeysuckle, Sweetpeas growing up the willow arch with the seating beneath it, and a new Nemesia called Wisley Vanilla. It smelt of fresh Vanilla, it was a lovely delicate but sweet smell.

This part of the Garden is added too all the time. We saw evidence of the Head Gardener, large white sticks stuck near shrubs with instructions like Cut back, and Move to this area.

Under a nearby tree was a collection of plants in pots waiting to be added to the Scented garden. Lavender Hidcote, Bushy airy Fennell, more Nemesia Wisley Vanilla, Sages...
Half the plants had labels near them, half didnt, but you can get the idea of it. Tree's and large shrubs border the Scented Garden. It is properly open to one side to the mystery garden with newly mulched paths...

There are two Mirrored obelisks that I saw reflecting the nearby planting. Blue slate was layed in the centre around the raised beds, beneath the Willow Canopy.The surrounding borders were densely planted, and mulched.

View from the Pergola End

The view from the end of the Pergola.A heavenly smelling flower with the white dangling Racemes gently moving in the breeze.

It is a solid wooden structure that the Wisteria has clambered all over.It is very vigarous (see the size of the stems,thick and ropey).

It is said to like freshly dug in organic matter, and needs phospahe and potassium.It has nitrogen fixing bacteria on its roots nodes.

I know when I grow it what it should look like!

Wisteria rope

The thick rope like stem of the Wisteria, according to Wikipedia it was named after a professor of Anatomy at the university of Pennsylvania.

Reading it is notorious for not flowering, so whatever the Harlow Carr gardeners do is working magic because it had flowered the entire length of the Pergola.

Just read Pergola is a walkway structure like this one.Arbor is a seated smaller version!

Another Rose

I wander if this is Rosa Eglantyne which is a briar type rose with a cup flower.

It smelt lovely too but the heavy rain had decimated the flower.Theres lots of buds there though.Growing in the shadey Scented garden alongside the Wisteria.

Sweet Peas

These were being trained up a willow support shaped like a tipped fan. My mum grew lots of sweetpeas up a concrete washer post in our old Cheltenham garden.

They smell gorgeous and can fragrance a whole garden.You can use them for cut flowers for the home.

This will also be in my scented garden plants to try to grow from seed.

Rose Brother Cadfael

This is the real Brother Cadfael.I got them mixed up the two scented pink roses in the scented garden!

It is good for poor soils, hedges, and containers.It flowers all summer long with fragrant pink rose flowers.

It smelt lovely!!

Yellow Hemerocalis

These yellow Day lilys smelt lovely, a very sweet pleasant scent.
I could not see a name tag by them.I looked up scented yellow day lilys.
It said they have been grown in China for thousands of years.The buds are said to be a delicacy.
They are good growers, and need splitting every few years to maintain good flowers.
Karen, I thought of you when i saw these.The day lily queen of 123 Garden!

These are now on my planting wishlist for a scented garden.

Love the flower colour and shape.They are said to be good too at keeping weeds at bay.The only problem is a hemerocallis gall midge that invades and infects the buds. the buds drop and the invader works their way into the ground to emerge as a fly and start the cycle over again.
Harlow Carr have been removing diseased buds as the only way to stop the midge larvae attack!
It said that late flowering Day lilys are not as prone to this, so maybe buy a few that flower at different times of the year.

Purple Clematis

I could not see the name on this Purple flowered Clematis.I loved the battered flower shape, and the cramy/lilac centre like fireworks.

Unfortunately there are millions of Clematis, so if anyone wants to hazard a guess to its identity.

Im assuming it is scented too, although I dont remember smelling this one.

Rosa unknown

Another Fab pink rose with sweet scent.The label said Rosa Eglantyne but looking on google its not that.

Roses are good for scented gardens I think.The delicate petals look good against the dark green of leaves, and hedges.

Scented Garden

This was the only part of Harlow Carr I wanted to visit after reading the about the gardens prior to visiting. A scented garden sounded lovely.Plants and flowers with perfumed air. I wanted to make notes mentally of what was growing there. Here they are :)
The garden is square shaped, surrounded by Hedging to enclose it. The seating is below the level of the plants. They are supposed to grow above you to release their intoxicating perfumes.
However I think the rain washed away a lot of the scents. I went around sniffing all the plants that I could see, to see if they actually smelled.
The only thing I knew about Wisteria was its where the Desperate Housewives lived...Wisteria Lane :)
Hils said yes thats Wisteria growing along an Arbour, and i stood on tip toes trying to put my nose near the trailing flowers. They smelt lovely. Internet needs perfume programmes so you can smell things!
I will post a montage I think of the Flowers I photographed. These include a yellow Day lilly (I got wet knees bending down to smell it.Thought of 123 garden! Karen who loves day lilies.),
An unknown purple Clematis, Rosa Eglyntyne, sweet pea's growing up a willow frame, and Rose Brother Cadfael, plus an unknown white rose.
I will revisit in July and try to see if it is more fragrant on a warm summers day.