Curious to know what your favorite smells are from native plants. My American wild plums here and late boneset are my favorites. The plums smell like roses, and I can’t quite determine the scent of late boneset, but it’s nice!
by CharlesV_
Native Plant Gardening
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Also, I think it’s funny that the American wild plums smell like roses, while the Illinois roses I have don’t seem to have much smell at all. In fact, it seems like the majority of native flowers I’ve smelled have no particular scent to them.
Choke berries and Canada plums Smell heavenly when in bloom
*Cynanchum laeve* – honeyvine milkweed: unsung hero of urban thickets and has a better fragrance than invasive honeysuckle, like imagine japanese honeysuckle but with a hint of vanilla and less perfumey
summer sweet and mock orange are both pretty fragrant
Clethra is my favorite-just heavenly!
I’m currently admiring the scent of late boneset
American Holly has a nice scent when it blooms ngl. And oddly enough I really love the smell of sycamore bark and leaves.
Cleveland Sage
That spicy sycamore with the passiflora and sort of clean green aster smell are a great combo at present