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In addition to being striking additions to the landscape, flowering trees and shrubs add a lovely color variation to your garden. Drinking herbal tea concoction on the garden patio while Ylang-ylang is in full bloom makes summer nights truly magical, and a whiff of perfumed White Frangipani in the full swing of autumn will make you appreciate the beauty of the season even more. After all, sweet-smelling flowers are for year-round enjoyment: flower gardening is not only reserved for summer and spring flowering cultivars. With the right selection of scented garden plants, you can have a blooming garden throughout the seasons.
While flowering trees and shrubs will certainly make your garden smell and look wonderful, it is not the only benefit of scented garden plants. Flower gardening provides much-needed sustenance for beneficial pollinators, especially in the urban city environments where blooms are not in abundance, and during autumn and winter, when scented flowers are usually scarce. Many gardeners are actively aware of their role in the preservation of wildlife through the cultivation of scented garden plants and choose plants specifically to provide pollen for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
In the end, whether you want to create an all-season blooming garden for your pleasure, to help pollinators thrive or both, we have advice on choosing the best flowering garden plants.